Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether or not it is inhabited, speculation which had lately given way to the practical certainty that it has no animal life but may have vegetation. Prime objects of scrutiny were to be the dark streaks which some hold to be canals, some to be forests; and the polar caps, which may be either ice or optical illusions caused by the 100-mile-thick Martian atmosphere...
...furrowed in response to strains due chiefly to contraction of the cooling earth and to decrease in rotational velocity because of tidal retardation. "At the close of the Paleozoic Era, the east-west geosyncline of the northern hemisphere was intensely crumpled by the sliding-together of the North Polar and the Equatorial dome. The result was the Appalachian-Hercynian system of mountains...Meantime, the continent was being domed as a whole. In this way sliding-slopes, directed toward the primitive Pacific Ocean, which was then larger than now, were generated...At last, about the middle of the Mesozoic...
...column-headed a cablegram from Manhattan publisher George Palmer Putnam who had just discovered the secret of Professor Marvin's death while visiting Whale Sound in North Greenland. Times readers, well schooled to palpitate at Arctic news by the Times elaborate accounts of the Byrd and the Norge polar flights (TIME, May 17 and 24), were roused to a dignified excitement...
...Polar Flyer Richard Evelyn Byrd: "A letter which has followed me over the U. S. since May 15 has reached me. It contained an odd request from one E. R. Davis, advertising man of Tacoma, Wash., for an exclusive contract to erect signs at the North Pole. He offered to pay for this right $1,000 per annum, from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs...
...received, couched in Publisher Putnam's best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming last fortnight when the Putnams, father and son, and Dan Streeter touched off their rifles simultaneously into the bulk of a polar bear on a cake of pan ice. David Putnam, 13, veteran of William Beebe's last Galapagos cruise, had been spending days in the crow's-nest sighting for bear; it is unlikely that he will neglect to mention the episode in his projected treatize: David Goes...