Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wayside Players of Scarsdale contested there?ah me!?the Riverside Players of Greenwich, the Huguenot Players of New Rochelle! From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir. The Circle Players, the Temple Players, the East-West Players, the Players' League, the Stockbridge Stocks?these five arose from Manhattan, and girded their loins with batik and fine linen and came. Brooklyn, fair Brooklyn of the poets, sent forth the Adelphi Dramatic Association, the Brooklyn Institute Players, the Clark Street Players?mighty clans...
...latest chapter in polar exploration may be written when Ronald Amundsen, the Norse explorer, hops off from Wainwright, on the north coast of Alaska, June 20 or shortly after for an airplane flight across the North Pole to Spitzbergen. In order to notify watchers and emergency rescue parties in Spitzbergen the news of his departure will be flashed thither by radio from Noorvik, on the west coast, the nearest transmitting station to Wainwright. Word will be carried over the intervening 400 miles by a chain of giant bonfires every fifteen miles, each tended by a team of Eskimos who will...
...Lakehurst, a powerful dirigible is under construction, intended to sail over the Pole to Europe. Naval officers on board will complete the map of the vast polar spaces by means of photography. And regular commerce across the Pole is looked for soon after...
...from the point of view of the promoter, there can be no competition from railroads, steamers, bicycles or automobiles. Across the oceans, flying craft must compete with the swift, sure liners. Over land, railroads continue to monopolize most of the traffic. But across the frozen areas of the polar regions, the aircraft must be unchallenged, unless, as suggested by Simon Lake, the submarine provides some grotesque rivalry...
...hereafter will be preserved for succeeding generations exactly as it happened. Great masterpieces of literature, coming upon the screen are securing for themselves a clientele which the printed word has never given them. In our own neighborhoods at a trifling expense any of us may be carried to polar or equatorial regions where only explorers heretofore have penetrated. The humblest backwoodsman whose vision might otherwise not have gone beyond his country now may watch the march of events in distant hemispheres pass by the door...