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...November 1911 Scott started south from winter quarters on Cape Evans with dogs, ponies, sledges. On the way the ponies were killed to feed men and dogs. Phenomenally good weather was soon followed by blizzards. Deep snow held the party in a soft vise. On Dec. 14 Scott wrote, "We are just starting our march with no very hopeful outlook." That same day the famed Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, traveling fast by a different route, became the first man to reach the South Pole...
...Molds for casting are placed in a metallic boxlike vise called a flask, to keep it in shape as the metal is poured in. To overcome the problem of the metals shrinking in cooling, Sculptor Lenz invented a flexible flask made of an elastic composition which contracts with the metal...
...corner of the Manhattan offices occupied by the French Consulate is the Pierre Matisse Gallery, a showroom run by the suave young son of the great French painter, Henri Matisse. Last week this gallery had something of major importance to show to importers, passport vise seekers, messenger boys and visiting celebrities: an exhibition of drawings by Aristide Maillol whom France ranks, with Antoine Bourdelle, as one of the two greatest living sculptors...
...time when they first began to supercede horserace, about 1890, and continues to the present day, when the bus is rapidly taking the place of the trolley as a means of rapid transit. Among the numerous aspects of street railway operation which are taken up may be classed their vise, building, organization, finance, and finally their fall...
...border, fired occasional shots, made desultory raids. Last week tension snapped. Soviet strategists, choosing a moment when civil war wracked half of China, sent four modern divisions, complete with tanks. over the line. Two divisions moved west from Vladivostok, two east from Chita to clamp Manchuria in a Soviet vise...