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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet by a score of 68 to 67. One break going against either team would, so closely matched are the squads, change the result of the meet. Third places are always harder to predio than first places, and in a close meet, a third place, won perhaps by an unknown, will decide the Big Three championship...
...Herbert J. Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has just returned from a three months' expedition in the Yucatan. With Mr. Gregory Mason. Dr. Spinden explored mush of the territory which was previously unknown to archaeologists, in an attempt to get nearer the long sought solution of the Mayan riddle...
...Byrd U. S. N., backed by Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others, rested after an historic 1,600-mile round-trip flight to the Pole, and laid out his next course-to wing westward from an advance base on north Greenland and search for unknown land where Explorers Peary and MacMillan each thought they descried it on different occasions years ago. Most formidable and promising of all, the dirigible Norge lurked in her Spitzbergen shed ready to nose forth and explore earth's last big "blind spot" from Spitzbergen clear over to Alaska. The Norwegian...
...protected against unmitigated sunshine glaring on ice and snow only by crude wooden masks or slit leather straps, the endless days are nights for many snow-blind Eskimos, days of black sunlight; that the Eskimo appetite is prodigious, measurable only by the amount of food available; that thieving is unknown among them; that at their indoor social gatherings it is customary for one and all to sit stripped to the buff; that if land is ever discovered beyond Barrow, and utilized for an aero base, Manhattan may be within two days and a half of Tokyo. Besides such statistics, human...
...members of the party who are primarily interested in botany and zoology hope to find some hitherto unknown material for study there. The country up until this time has been particularly inaccessible to foreigners because of the hostility of its inhabitants, who have not attained to a high degree of civilization. The present expedition hopes to carry on its explorations with greater facility through the friendly influence of the President of the Republic who is a Harvard graduate...