Word: trackless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trackless Cincinnati...
...thousand miles is the ship or train distance between San Diego, Calif., and Guayaquil, Ecuador (where President-Elect Hoover was last week, see p. 10), between Manhattan and Queenstown, Ireland, between Washington and San Francisco. Trains or ships join those traveled places in a few days. Getting to the trackless Poles takes months...
...Nothing she did could influence or change them. She watched her son growing up, her husband fighting against the earth. More immigrants sail their prairie schooners westward, and Beret prays, "Almighty God, show mercy now to the children of men. Let not these folks be altogether lost in this trackless wilderness." For herself, this is an unanswered prayer. Her children, her husband, make the prairie theirs; but Beret is lost in a trackless wilderness. The Author, for 21 years professor at St. Olaf College, in Minnesota, has written many books. A Norwegian himself, son of a fisherman, he wrote...
...restoration of paintings ruefully agreed that "those birds have flown away for good." Ruefully, because the house where James McGrath lived used to be known as "Minniesland" and the land around it as Audubon Park. In "Minniesland" lived John James Audubon (1780-1851), famed wanderer of the trackless American wilderness, hirsute ornithologist and painter extraordinary of wild life. Beyond a doubt the palimpsest laid bare by Mr. McGrath on his kitchen walls was the work, casual or studied, of John James Audubon, who used the present McGrath part of "Minniesland" as a studio after he came to fame...
Waskey and Reporter Rossman told how their sledging party had mushed upland for days into a trackless country of rivers and snow-buried canons, climbing to the top of the mountain range that slopes off north again to the Polar Sea. Well within the Arctic Circle, they had encountered weather severe enough at times to deaden their radio equipment. The going was heavy. Their orders were to set up a more powerful radio sending set when they topped the divide, flash a signal for Captain Wilkins and his aides to twirl their Fokker propellers in Fairbanks and take...