Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Donald B. MacMillan, the American explorer, who has occupied the center of the Polar stage since the failure of Capt. Roald Amundsen's expedition (TIME, June 18, June 25), has been heard from after a long silence...
...called lakes which had almost disappeared, have become unusually dark lately. New canals have appeared and others have changed color or broadened. But they do not show the vast, complicated network which Professor Lowell thought he observed there. The most distinctive features of the Martian topography are the polar snowcaps, brilliant white patches at the respective poles, which expand in the Martian winter and diminish in summer, just as the arctic regions on the earth. The color changes in the canals and spots are also seasonal, and very suggestive of vegetation. These and other observations have led to the irresistible...
North of Eastern Siberia, an island 70 miles long, 40 miles wide, consisting chiefly of naked rocks, and inhabited normally by nothing but polar bears, is claimed by Russia, Canada, the United States; and there is a possibility that Japan may come into the controversy...
...Polar exploration is popular this summer. Captain Roald Amundsen, the Norseman who reached the South Pole first, will hop off from Wainwright, Alaska, June 21, in an attempt to fly over the North Pole to Spitzbergen...
Amundsen's pilot, Lieut. Oskar Omdahl, has been reported dead from Nome, but a mail carrier who left Wainwright, April 28, where Omdahl, spent the winter, said all there were well. Amundsen is taking with him moving picture apparatus for filming the polar region...