Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frederick Albert Cook, onetime polar explorer, onetime oil stock crook, recently released from Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, March 17), was given a job as physical director of the Boys' Brotherhood Republic's summer camp at Burlington, Wis. He told a meeting of the Boys in Chicago that anyone who went to the North Pole could find a metal tube he buried there...
...strong enough to draw them back. They developed their own gravities and took to twirling in nearly circular orbits around the Sun.*They all turn around the Sun in the same direction; and they all, except Uranus and Neptune, and possibly the New Planet, turn on their own polar axis in the same direction. ?Uranus .and Neptune are retrograde. The map shows their approximately relative position as of March 24, as might be seen by an observer on the star nearest to the celestially pretty Solar System, North Star, about 240 million miles away...
...their satellites, or moons. Earth and Neptune each have one moon. Mars has two, Uranus four, Saturn and Jupiter each nine. All the moons, like their planets, are visible by reflected Sun light. They move around their planets in the same direction as the planets turn on their polar axes. Exceptions are Saturn's moon called Phoebe and one of Jupiter's. Jupiter may have, also, a second contrary moon...
...honor Russell Owen, returning Byrd expedition newspaperman. They gave him a paperweight made of New Zealand greenstone, surmounted by a silver model of the Kiwi (New Zealand bird with rudimentary wings useless for flying), toasted him "the only newspaperman in the world who has covered assignments in both Polar regions...
...April 1925, Frederick Albert Cook, M.D., polar explorer, mountain climber, oil stock promoter, entered the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., became convict No. 23,118, began to serve a 14-year sentence. Not for the doubt that had been cast upon his story of "discovering" the North Pole was he convicted, but for using the U.S. mails to defraud...