Sublime

As perilous ice quickly surrounded the ship, Sides recounts, the team had to “shed its organizing ideas, in all their unfounded romance, and to replace them with a reckoning of the way the Arctic truly is.”a

William Ickes,

But retreat—or surrender—was not in Henry Flagler’s nature. He turned to Meredith’s second-in-command, William J. Krome, the strapping young civil engineer who had led the ill-fated mapping expeditions through the wilds near Cape Sable; without hesitation,

Wilson led our country reluctantly into World War I and after the war led the struggle nationally and internationally to establish the League of Nations. They associate Wilson with progressive causes like women’s suffrage. A handful of students recall the Wilson administration’s Palmer raids against left-wing unions. But my students seldom know or

Alexander Graham Bell, for instance, served on the board of the Eugenics Record Organization (ERO), which was established by the Carnegie Institute in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.2

Team Δy chief Alan Britton, M.S. & J.D., of whom one sensed that no one had ever even once made fun, was an immense and physically imposing man, roughly 6'1" in every direction, with a large smooth shiny oval head in the precise center of which were extremely tiny close-set features arranged in the invulnerably cheerful expression of a man

I owe a very special debt to Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation, who was driven, by friendship and by interest in the topic, to read it very hard. His single-minded insistence on clarity of exposition was always of great value and sometimes a nuisance—especially in instances where his style and skill were better suited than my own to the p

Earl Gerald,

Consequently islands have served as the Dick-and-Jane primers of evolutionary biology, helping scientists master enough vocabulary and grammar to begin to comprehend the more complex prose of the mainlands.