Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he could fly from his base at Deception Island to visit Admiral Byrd at Little America. On the far side of the continent, Sir Douglas Mawson's men were able to make only a brief flight from their ship, the Discovery. In the same general neighborhood the Norwegian whale-spotters, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Lützow Holm, did not fly far from the Norvegia...
...wealth in the understanding of primitive minds, which include the child minds of our own time. And no age will outgrow the stimulation and enthusiasm of the noble prophetic writings. But that does not involve the acceptance of their wonder tales as literal truth. Belief in the Jonah-Whale story could not make a man any better morally, and he must stultify his intelligence in accepting...
...distinction, officers and men together were moved to Immigrant Home, a Methodist Mission. Experienced Episcopal Archdeacon Dennen took over the management of Immigrant Home from his Methodist brethren for the length of its Red occupancy. Just as their fathers had rushed to look at Mr. Barnum's embalmed whale and Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Boston reporters, vaguely aware of the importance of this Soviet-U. S. ship transfer, hurried down to peer at 60 genuine Russian communists. Those who expected to find bearded Moujiks in Russian blouses and felt boots were thoroughly disappointed...
Pilots expect what to the rest of the world is the unusual-forest fires, lost parties, calls for ambulance service, mineral deposits, migrating caribou, herded reindeer. In New Brunswick bears might steal a pilot's food. In Hudson Bay a seaplane might be bumped by a white whale...
...Alsace, 'What kind of a fish are you expecting to catch?' 'All kinds,' was his gruff but very proper answer....I confess that I do not care to hear a publisher shouting from his crow's nest 'There she blows!' when I have reason to think that his whale is only a porpoise. But meanwhile there are few pleasanter sights than porpoises rolling in the sunshine, and, any morning, now, we may really catch sight of a White Whale." --Time...