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Word: amundsen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the Antarctic waste. There are scenes in the film which establish the personal relationships of the five men who make the desperate final dash to the South Pole. Far more important than these relationships, however, is the common purpose of the men to reach the Pole before Amundsen, and to return before the setting of the sun brings the winter blizzards...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...Frend has innumerable opportunities to fill the picture with false heroics; especially when Scott and his men discover that they are not the first to reach the Pole, for Amundsen's Norwegian flag is already planted there. It is much to Frend's credit that John Mills, who plays Scott, and Derck Bond, Reginald Beckwith and Harold Warrender, as other members of the expedition, play their parts as men who can take defeat quietly and then move on to the next task at hand. Mills, in the same spirit, plays Scott with great honesty and authenticity...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...Antarctic is no place for amateurs; and softspoken, leathery Finn Ronne is no amateur. His father was with Roald Amundsen when he discovered the South Pole; and Ronne, brought up in the mountains of Norway, first went to the Antarctic with Rear Admiral Byrd in 1933. When he goes back in a year or two ("There is a lure . . ."), Mrs. Ronne will not be with him. Says she: "Why, I didn't wear a dress the whole time I was there. The next time, I stay home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World's End | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...Britain (about the 4th Century B.C.) found it already inhabited, and there were Indians to receive the first explorers on the American continent. Antarctica alone, says Stefansson, is "the one continent whose true human discoverers are known"-and at a period of civilization when such men as Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen could be aware of, and set down, the most vital details of their discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Explorers Hand In Hand | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...sense of direction was aroused to a small degree by a statement which appeared in TIME (Nov. 4) concerning the "Perambulating Pole." According to TIME, Roald Amundsen found the magnetic pole slightly northwest of where Sir James Ross had made the first reliable fix. Yet TIME plots Amundsen's fixing one degree, 15 minutes east of Ross's!! Apparently TIME is perambulating a bit itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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