Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edwin H. Land, president of the Polar-old Corporation, will speak on "New Developments in Photography" in Fogg Museum at 8 p.m. tomorrow...
Soriano's polar opposite in Manila is stocky, cleft-chinned Father Walter B. Hogan, 37, a Jesuit priest from Philadelphia who arrived in the Philippines in 1933, became a teacher at Ateneo de Manila, a Jesuit college. He was professor of classics and the clarinet-toting mentor of the school band; the boys called him "Benny Goodman in a cassock." He also developed a deep interest in Filipino workers and Catholic trade unionism; in 1947 he established Ateneo's Institute of Social Order...
...gravel-voiced barker describes the 1950 Circus as "indescribable, incalculable, and uncomparable." This is not true. The circus is very describable and sort of comparable. It is, however, improbable. A crocodile-skinned man married to a bearded lady is improbable; a Polar Bear skidding down a slide is improbable; two boys lying on their backs and spinning bridge tables with their feet are very, very improbable. An elephant, of course, is less probable than almost anything...
...even a partial blotting will be visible in Cambridge, the University Observatory announced last night, adding that Harvard wasn't dispatching any polar expeditions because "annular eclipses aren't very interesting...
...their wild state, polar bears and Alaskan brown bears do not mate. For one thing, polar bears live on arctic ice, brown bears on solid ground. They also belong to different species. So when a male polar bear cub named Snow White and a female brown bear cub named Ramona were put together in a cage at the Washington Zoo more than ten years ago, the animal experts did not expect much to happen...