Word: blubbered
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Captain Donald Baxter MacMillan, with his hands in his pockets, stood looking at an Eskimo and chuckling from time to time in a delighted fashion, as if he were watching the progress of a practical joke. The Eskimo paid no attention to Captain MacMillan. A big, blubber-bred man with a crouching sinewy figure, a face creased by the wind and reddened by the sun, he tilted an eye at the Woolworth Building. "Big house, by jingo," he said mildly...
...press, or having some basis in fact, related how the great warships of the U. S., plowing the Pacific, encountered a school of whales, and, eager to find targets for their gunnery, released from their guns the steely messengers of death. The aim was true. Fragments of cetaceous blubber bounded high in the air. The school had learned its lesson. And The Christian Science Monitor commented: "War preparedness is bad enough in itself without adding thereto such barbarous activities...
...details of an entire whaling voyage; beginning at the wharves where the vessel is put in order and out-fitted, and then going on to such matters as shipping the crew, leaving port, cruising for whales, chasing and capturing a whale, "cutting in" the animal and "drying-out his blubber. Mr. Watson told the CRIMSON reporter of his interest in the old industry. "Although I have never been whaling in my life", he said "I was brought up in the place where nearly everyone talked whaling and the subject has always fascinated...
...Blubber '10, C. D. Moss '09, O. W. Knauth 1G., and H: W. H. Powel '09 posted no scores and are defaulted...
...sledges and then finished with a description of a peculiar method of trapping wolves. The Eskimos take a piece of whalebone about a foot long, sharpen it at both ends, and bend it into the shape of a letter Z. This bone is then imbedded in a piece of blubber and frozen there so that it retains its Z shape. When a wolf sees one of these balls of blubber he swallows the mass whole. The heat of his stomach melts the blubber and the whalebone, thus set free, straightens out with a violent spring, piercing the walls...