Word: polarize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreams, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, Polar explorer, saw a 37-ton Jules Verne monster sidling over ice crevasses, carrying an airplane pickaback, and accommodating in its insides everything four explorers would need for a twelve-month tour of the Antarctic...
Alligators, hippopotami and petrels all have muscle valves which close their nostrils when they enter water. Seals and polar bears can also pull in their ears. But man is "a terrestrial being," with no "musculature for closing the nostrils, and keeping water from the nasal cavities and their appurtenances." Thus wrote Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla. in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, agitating against humans participating in that No. 1 Florida pastime: swimming. Contrary to popular belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils...
...Clarence Alonzo Mills of the University of Cincinnati believes that sun spots cause economic depressions. He also believes that the biggest cause of disease in the U. S. is not poverty, urban life, or plain ignorance, but "cold polar waves traveling down the central trough of the continent." Last week in a book-full of statistics, weather maps and medical long shots, Dr. Mills published his latest ideas on the ill winds of North America...
Noble-browed Polar Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 59, published a book about Iceland (Iceland: The First American Republic), joined Local 537 of the New York College Teachers Union, because "as yet there is no union for polar explorers...
...translated "canals." Rivers cut channels, but canals are built by intelligent agents. In the U. S., Astronomer Percival Lowell picked up the canal idea with enthusiasm, claimed he could see them clearly. His theory: the canals were built to bring water from the melting ice of the polar caps, by Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than Lowell's, declared that the canals were optical and psychological illusions. Certainly narrow, clear, straight markings which could be called canals do not show up in photographs, appear at their clearest...