Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most dramatic episodes of man's exploration of his planet is shaping up this week in the hostile white heart of Antarctica. The British Commonwealth land expedition, led by 49-year-old Scientist-Explorer Vivian Ernest Fuchs, is battling toward the air-supplied U.S. base at the South Pole, and will probably get there in a few more days. Geologist Fuchs, lean veteran of 30 years of scientific exploration in Greenland, Africa and Antarctica, has announced that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross...
When the expedition reaches the U.S. polar base, Fuchs will have to review his decision to brave the 1,200 miles to the Ross Sea. The nearest supply cache left by Hillary is 500 miles away, and toward the end of the short Antarctic summer the weather will be too bad for reliable air transportation. If his hard-punished Sno-Cats break down or run out of fuel, the howling blizzards that blow in February may make it impossible to rescue...
...Fuchs nears his final decision, every man at the polar base, both American and British, will be thinking of Fuchs's countryman, Captain Robert Scott, who got to the Pole in 1912. He started back toward the Ross Sea-the same terrible journey Fuchs will have to make, and at the same terrible season-and was frozen to death with the last of his five-man party, in a nine-day blizzard...
...According to the scientific principle named for Austrian Physicist Christian Johann Doppler (1803-53), the speed of an object moving toward or away from the observer can be accurately measured by changes in the length of the radio waves it transmits...
...forks into his artificial arm to do the carving), young Seurat got only passing marks from his drawing teacher. On his own, he delved into weighty scientific treatises. Haunting the Louvre's galleries, he tried to analyze the color alchemy of the old masters. What Seurat was working toward was a system that would break down color into its components; then he set these down in minute dots so that the result, seen from a distance, would fuse in the retina of the viewer's eye, rather than be muddled on the painter's palette...