Word: valdez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VALDEZ, Alaska--Bradford Washburn, Harvard Geographer and leader of the University's Alaskan expedition, reported today that all equipment had reached the first base camp on the Natuanuska Glacier near here. The group will survey the unmapped Chugach Mountain Range...
After the expedition returns to Valdez from the wilderness, the rest of the summer will be spent making aerial surveys for the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr., methodical young mountain climber of Harvard's Institute of Geographical Exploration, son of the dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. Mass., trekked into Valdez, Alaska with news that on July 9, he and his friend Robert H. Bates of Philadelphia had reached the top of iy,150-ft. Mt. Lucania, highest unclimbed peak in North America...
Back from the jungles of Guatemala Joan Lowell (The Cradle of the Deep) brought a 6-year-old half-Indian boy named Marino Valdez. She averred that hostile Indians had captured Marino Valdez, cut off his right hand because he was an "infidel'' (or because they wanted to prevent his ever bearing arms), abandoned him to the jungle, where she found him while shooting films. She said she planned to adopt the waif legally in Manhattan, train him for the diplomatic service...
HARVARD WEST POINT England, g. g., VanNostrand Wemple, r.f.b. l.f.b., Meade Stent, l.f.b. r.f.b., Neely Morrill, r.h.b. l.h.b., Stanton Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Upham Gummere, l.h.b. r.h.b., Caufield Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Russell Clos, r.i.f. l.i.f., Boys Manheimer, c.f. c.f., Bruce Stork, l.i.f. r.i.f., Craig Baxter, l.o.f. r.o.f., Valdez...