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...reminder that one half of the world is farther away from the sun than the other, came the news that at Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, glacial winds last week swept the streets, driving the thermometer down to 5° below zero...
Kivalina of the Ice Lands was filmed by one Earl Rossman in a two-year expedition to the Arctic. Eskimos are the actors. Here are reindeer without the Santa Claus; an eskimaid eski-mobiling behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...
Search. In Danes Gut, Spitzbergen, Amundsen's base ships, From and Hobby, awaited the zero hour fixed by their instructions. The hour struck and no seaplane zoomed in from the north, nor was any signal from the smoke bombs Amundsen had taken with him visible on the horizon. Glad of a chance for action, the waiting ones had up their anchors, steamed for the edge of the ice-floes, the Hobby heading northeast, the From northwest...
...height of the zero hour which separates the taking of "divisionals" from the announcement of the results the harassed senior wonders what has become of the relentless efficiency that has long characterized our college office...
...stopped. Four line plunges netted them eleven yards and a first down, but 12 yards from the goal. The next play came as close to giving the scrubs a touchdown as it could without doing so. A well-directed forward pass flew right to a blackshirt over the zero line. He reached for it, seemed to catch it, then let it go, and the scrubs lost their opportunity for revenge. Cheek, who was now directing Team A, intercepted a pass on the next play on the eight-yard line...