Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since early this year Stefansson and Karsten Anderson, his assistant, have been on a meat and water diet. They will continue this diet until next winter. A committee of ten scientists and physicians is observing the results of the experiment...
...full springtime in the South and Ambassador Claudel is a poet famed and, in the French sense, serious. It was full springtime and the poet-ambassador was finding travel restful after a winter of buzzy Washington. He had seen Florida. He was going next to Tennessee. In between came this spot of which he had heard so much and he was prepared to luxuriate...
Wilkins started for Alaska in the winter of 1926, heading what was then called "the most scientifically planned and thoroughly equipped Arctic expedition ever assembled." His twin objects were "new lands for the United States and an airway across the top of the world." Furthermore, he wanted to prove that an airplane costing about $25,000 had a special utility of its own as against an airship costing about...
...name is Mary Garden. Yet it was not Mary Garden, the aged unmarried maiden. The name that appeared was that of a less spectacular but artistically far more competent diva, Rosa Raisa. She, a lady with an equally imposing stage presence, and a far better voice, who refused this winter the leading role in the world premiere of Boito's long delayed Nerone, and who, at 34, is listed among the greatest dramatic sopranos in the world, last week left Manhattan on a boat bound for Italy. Ship news reporters watched her sail away, and whatever they may have...
James Joseph Tunney, fisticuffer, delivered a lecture before Professor William Lyon Phelps' class in Literature at Yale University on William Shakespeare's birthday (April 23). The Winter's Tale, confessed Mr. Tunney, bewildered and inspired him ten times. After further investigation, he concluded: "The name of William Shakespeare, to me, has been synonymous with all that is lovely and beautiful in life." Going into mythology, Mr. Tunney said: "Ajax was just a great big, ambitious fellow like Jack Dempsey, given to extended mouthings...