Mystery land Baffin Island explored by Arctic expedition
National Geographic bulletin notes Baffin Island is vast and little known. Frobisher first mapped its southern point 349 years ago as the MacMillan Arctic expedition prepares to photograph and study its wildlife Eskimos boats and terrain. The island dwarfs many regions and lies far north of Alaska and Norway with a lake as large as Ontario among its features.
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Ffin Island
United States
MacMillan Arctic
North America
National Geographic Society
Frobisher
Baffin Island
Australia
Greeland
Resolution Island
Alaska
Oslo
Norway
Leningrad
Jeneth
Hammerfest
Scandinavia
Point Barrow
Texas
New
Baffin Island’s Many Lands Feature in Historic Arctic Guide
The article recounts early explorers naming regions around Baffin Island such as Penny Land Cumberland and Meta Incognita. It notes Queen Elizabeth’s playful label Meta Incognita meaning beyond the unknown and observes modern U S Navy flights nearing the boundary of the unknown.
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London
Kalto
Arctic
Lancaster Sound
Sir James Lancaster
Baffin Island
Jones Sound
Sir Francis Jones
Smith Sound
Etah
Sir Thomas Smith
Penny
Cockburn Land
Fox Land
Prince William Land
Milne Land
Meta Incognita
U. S. Navy
Great Water of Baffin Island and its Arctic Secrets
The Eski mo lakes on Baffin Island span 120 miles by 40 miles and form part of the island’s Great Lakes. They offer scarce safe landing sites for Arctic planes amid floating ice, while inland waters host trout and wildlife including Arctic hare and musk oxen.
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Great Water
Great Lakes
Baffin Island
Arctic
South Sea
MacMillan
Nottingham Island
Hudson Bay
North America
Siberia
Frobisher
Americas
William Baffin
Baffin
Northwest
Great Island
North Greenland
Robert Bylot
Davis Straight
Baffin Bay
Baseball ruling on missed bases and home run scoring
In a bases loaded situation with one out a home run clears the bases scoring the runners. The runner who failed to touch third is put out on appeal and the question is whether this affects the other runners. The answer is that the runners who touched the bases and the batter score. the missed touch does not negate the home run or the other scoring plays.
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Nurmi
Cambridge
Yale
Enthusiasm and pitching pace Giants and pennant chances
A retrospective on the 1920s season shows Billy Evans praising the New York Giants for their enthusiasm and pace during spring training and exhibition play. It notes that spirit and fight lift contenders like Washington Athletics White Sox while highlighting pitching as a key, often decisive, weakness for teams like the Yankees and Tigers.
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New York Giants
Giants
McGraw
Philadelphia Athletics
Chicago White Sox
Baseball rule interpretation on base running order and outs
An explanation of base running rule 52 section four. It discusses a runner who touches each base in order and argues against calling the first runner out for passing another after a hit. The text emphasizes proper base touch sequence and only supports the described play under the rule.
Veteran race drivers scarce and aging boxing jabbed humor
An exchange notes there are few veteran automobile racers and implies most may not reach veteran status. Dempsey asks an American manufacturer to send boxing equipment while joking he will never need to cable for apple sauce. Renault blames high living for his slump in the ring.
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Dempsey
Jack Renault
Fragmented musings mix sports and society in a bygone note
A patchwork of opinions jokes and anecdotes spans baseball slang umpire antics and fashion trends. References to the White Sox Cleveland fans Nurmi Harvard and Yale mingle with hotel living curiosities and golf humor in a casual column fragment.
Beef and Raisins Casserole and Strawberry Pie Recipe
Menu plan outlines breakfast lunch and dinner with beef and raisin casserole and strawberry pie. Includes quantities for beef vegetables ham raisins and seasonings plus steps for browning simmering and baking. Mentions serving limits for children under 10 and substitutions using rice or potatoes.
Interesting facts from old world belief and trivia
The piece lists curiosities about mourning customs in New Guinea widows tasting foods with different parts of the tongue, a wood substitute with sawdust that ignites only at high heat, the view that animals speak at Christmas, Joseph Conrad's late-life writing gift, and Egypt’s large size with limited settlement compared to Texas.
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New Guinea
Joseph Conrad
Poland
Egypt
Texas
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