Word: ross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elected **Tie for first position ALBUM COMMITTEE *Robert Reinhart 177 *John Williamson McPherson 170 *Richard Goodman West 167 *John de Laittre 160 *Arthur Harold Harlow, Jr. 158 William Rupert Maclaurin 136 Henry Harrison Proctor 136 George Anthony Weller 136 James Henry Sachs 125 Willis Gilpin Hazard 111 John Orren Ross 100 Paul Albert Newsome 85 Robert Biglow Gowing 82 Hentry Frederick Schwarz 77 Votes thrown out 15 Total...
...Robinson, Jr. Howard Whitmore, Jr. Hulburd Johnston Edward William Sexton Alfred Skinner Woodworth FOR CLASS COMMITTEE (Two to be elected--Permanent Class Office) Winslow Carlton James Lawrence, Jr. John Parkinson William Sterling Youngman, Jr. FOR ALBUM COMMITTEE (Five to be elected) Robert Bigelow Gowing John Williamson McPherson John Orren Ross Arthur Harold Harlow, Jr. Paul Albert Newsome James Henry Sachs Willis Gilpin Hazard Henry Harrison Proctor Henry Frederick Schwarz John de Laittre William Rupert Maclaurin Robert Reinhart George Anthony Weller Richard Goodman West
Reaching the two-mile high elevation of the South Pole is only an incidental goal. Amundsen was there in December 1911; Scott in January 1912. Shackleton almost got there in January 1909. All three, like Commander Byrd, approached through the Ross Sea, the deep bite into the Asiatic side of Antarctica. Explorer Wilkins is trying from the American side. His distance, from Deception Island, to the Pole is approximately 1,900 miles (air way). That is about the same as the distance ships must go between Galveston and Manhattan, Baltimore and the Barbados...
Commander Byrd's aim is to explore the South Polar continent. It contains 5,000,000 square miles; is covered, except for its margins during its summer, with thick ice. There may be a water channel all the way across it, joining the Ross and Weddell Seas. There are mountain ranges. They may be extensions of the Andes; they may be related to the formations of the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Those Antarctica mountains and the tremendous ice cap help make the South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole...
...first William Belden Noble lecture will be delivered this year on "Why Introduce Men to Jesus" by the Reverend Dr. George Alexander Johnston Ross, Professor of Homiletics at the Union Theological Seminary, New York City. This lecture is to be given tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson...