Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esquimaux have no books, no schools, no churches, but in their way they are as highly educated as we are", declared Captain Donald B. MacMillan last night during the course of a speech in the Union on his recent trip to northern-most Greenland...
Captain MacMillan early in the spring of 1924 made a long trip over the snow and icefields southward from the spot where his ship was frozen in, to the first Esquimaux village, the settlement of humans which is the nearest in the world to the North Pole. There he found the children coasting down the hills, exactly, he said, like children elsewhere. The Esquimaux were very clever with their hands, and also with their feet. In illustration of this fact the speaker showed pictures of Esquimaux ladies holding their sewing in their toes. These Polar inhabitants had last been visited...
Doctor-Explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice is gathering ethnological, geological, commercial data (rubber, gutta-percha). It is his eighth trip to tropical South America, where he has already mapped some...
...next afternoon-a total of 28 hr., 36 min., making about 2,300 miles. Their faces badly wind-bitten, the crew . had been so deafened by the roar of engines they could hardly hear the eager greetings when they landed. They had completed the test for the Honolulu trip...
...next week, the Union authorities have announced speeches by William Jeanings Bryan, famous orator and Deaceratic politician, and by Mr. MacMillan, the noted Arctic explorer who was a companion of Peary's on his trip to the Pole...