Word: polarizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard hockey team coasted to a 4-1 victory at Bowdoin Saturday night over an impotent Polar Bear squad, to even its season's record...
...frigid Polar Bears, who have been walloped by Brown 11-1 and Northeastern 13-1, will be the Crimson's easiest opponents of the year. Harvard lost 6-2 to Northeastern Wednesday in a relative squeaker, so if comparative scores mean anything, the Crimson can't miss...
Actually, snow blindness is not blindness and isn't caused by snow. Correctly called solar photophthalmia, it is sunburn of the sun's ultraviolet rays off the glistening snow or ice. While generally affecting the unprepared skier, snow blindness is not unknown among mountain climbers, the Eskimos, and even polar bears...
...replaced by photosynthetic plankton, the earth's population can keep feeding itself while doubling three more times, until it reaches about 3,000 billion in A.D. 2334. Five times as many people can be taken care of by putting up vast satellite mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the polar areas, warming the whole earth to equatorial productiveness...
...ever had a chance to do just that (and nobody has in 113 years), it is Peter Scott, who will be at the helm of Britain's Sovereign in the races this week. And why not? He has done everything else he put his mind to. His father, Polar Explorer Robert Falcon Scott, died in Antarctica when Peter was two-but not before leaving a letter to his wife: "Make the boy interested in natural history; it is better than games. Above all, he must guard, and you must guard him, against indolence. Make him a strenuous...