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Bitter enemies of the Bermuda highs are the "polar air masses" which bulge down from Canada. Their cool air creeps below warmer air masses, lifts them off the ground, wringing the moisture out of them in belts of chilly rain. When a polar air mass finally dominates the sky, the weather turns cool and clear...
Sometimes a polar air mass protects the eastern states in a more dramatic way. Last week a West Indian hurricane roared northward toward New England. Storm warnings flew; fishing boats scurried to cover. Two hundred Navy airplanes fled to Albany from Quonset Point, R.I. Police on Cape Cod were alerted for onrushing trouble. But a rescuing polar air mass hovered over the threatened area, pushed the dreaded hurricane harmlessly away from the land...
After the varsity had clipped Bowdoin's wings, the Polar Bears from New Brunswick proceeded to meet B. U., and by the slim margin of a run were beaten by the Terriers...
Elsewhere, British engravings were not in vogue. Argentina refused to honor British mail carrying a new twopenny stamp featuring the disputed (but British-administered) Falkland Islands. Chile likewise objected because the stamp showed as British a portion of the Polar icecap she covets...
Against Bowdoin last Saturday Moravec was generous with bases on balls, but seemed to be able to settle down when the Polar Bears got men on bases...