Word: tundras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buzzing cheerily over frozen Dominion tundra, Pilot Hume lost his vision because of a frosty windshield. He slowed down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...
...Greist's Alaskan medical-missionary district covers about 120,000 square miles. Over the tundra of that vast region he was accustomed to make two trips a year by dog-team, carrying the Gospel and purgatives to the Eskimos, performing marriages, pulling teeth...
...herd, stampeded the rest. They came to rivers frozen glare-smooth and the drivers had to notch the ice with picks to give the animals a footing. Fawning seasons forced long halts. In summer black, torturing clouds of flies and mosquitoes swept across the tundra. In winter men and beasts wandered off in blizzards to be gone for days or weeks. For months at a time the whole troupe was lost to the world. In the spring of 1932 a Canadian searching party found half the herd about 300 miles from its goal. The drivers had not seen Andy Bahr...
...quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last week Nome was all but wiped off the map by a $1,000,000 tire...
...winters Traveler Welzl hibernated on the way. At one settlement coquettish women made advances by biting their larger fleas in two, swallowing one half, tossing the other half at him. At last he reached the Arctic tundra, exchanged his horse and cart for reindeers and sledge. Reaching the Bear Islands he stayed there with Eskimos until a whaler came by, took off to the waters north of Novaya Zemlya, "where the ocean flowed like a huge river among the icebergs...