Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task so admirably started by Colonel Lindbergh in offering gratuitous lessons in geography. The daily papers are continually recording the names of hitherto unknown, or long forgotten, cities and villages, which now distinguish themselves as hospitable hosts to a celebrated American. For those who have seen the map of South America through a glass darkly, these illuminating reports are becoming mines of information--the historical student can now locate the home of Bolivar, and the engineer the railroad passes across the Andes...
Their arrival at South Station was preceded by a throng of reporters, anxious to interview the unusual arrival. The snake, however, was not put on exhibition for fear of the cold, but was rushed immediately to the Museum. There he will be carefully entertained as is the custom with visiting snakes...
...came the tenth anniversary of the day once announced as the marker of the end of war, but so soon to become the starting-line for post-war platitudes. Manifold the causes must be that could blow the clear flame of idealism to the smoky glare of hatred. South American border rows are a common-place, but not for long have the contestants stood up so eagerly to cleave the air with passes at each other. It is true that the little brethen of the South felt none of the reverberations of the World War except indirectly; but that does...
Explorer Byrd, at Dunedin, last week,, was 3,000 miles from the South Pole. That does not seem far. Yet Portland, Ore., and Millinocket, Me., are 3,000 miles from the North Pole; so too Lyons, France, and Venice, Italy...
Commander Byrd's aim is to explore the South Polar continent. It contains 5,000,000 square miles; is covered, except for its margins during its summer, with thick ice. There may be a water channel all the way across it, joining the Ross and Weddell Seas. There are mountain ranges. They may be extensions of the Andes; they may be related to the formations of the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Those Antarctica mountains and the tremendous ice cap help make the South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole...