Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottle, the fire was embers, Dawn reached rosy fingers to snatch back reality. The Vagabond shook himself, gazed at his empty lair, stretched in preparation for a new day. At nine o'clock he will saunter spryly into Sever 22 to hear Mr. Curtiss discourse on "Motion in Polar Coordinates," for Roger Bacon, first of the moderns, said "Mathematics prepares the mind and elevates it to a sure knowledge of all things," for in numbers lies the only Truth...
...QUEST FOR POLAR TREASURES-Jan Welzl-Macmillan...
...Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
...surface and picture it as roughly spherical.* At night the Layer shrinks comparatively close to Earth; by day, as the Sun puts in its effect, it recedes. But this theory of diurnal, tide-like pulsation has not explained all radio reactions against the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer. A Navy physicist Polar-yearing at Fairbanks, Alaska, last week offered a new explanation...
...Among other supernal levels is one at 800,000 miles, discovered in 1928 by Norway's Carl Mulertz Stormer. Here begin to form Polar auroras from solar electrons projected 92 million miles...