Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group along slowly and that it will reach its peak of efficiency at the crucial moment, when the Blue skaters might well be burned out. They hark back to performances in the dim and not so dim past, to final series in amateur and pro ranks in which a whirlwind pace has been maintained to the final hurdle. At that point, they say, the spent leaders have tripped and fallen...
...Wilkins discovered that Graham land was an icebound group of islands, now provisionally called the Antarctic Archipelago. He named new places after friends and backers?explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Flyer Carl Ben Eielson. Publisher William Randolph Hearst, and Geographers Finley and Bowman; also Lockheed (Aircraft), Mobiloil (Vacuum-Oil Co.), (Wright) Whirlwind...