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Word: polars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only saw seals there, and polar bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Soviet Soap Opera | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 48, polar-exploring airman (he flew Admiral Byrd through Antarctica in 1929), wartime command pilot on Scandinavian missions for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces; and Bess Engelbrechtsen, 26, Oslo journalist who helped publish an underground newspaper during the Nazi occupation; he for the second time, she for the first; on Feb. 26; in Oslo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Except for the Great Unus, along with the Great Lamberti and the Great Alzanas, this year's Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus has little out of the ordinary to offer, which is not a particularly damning criticism if you happen to be entertained by polar bears, clowns, horses, acrobats, dancing girls, lions, aerialists, or unicycle riders. These standard items have been produced with aplomb, magnificence, smoothness, showmanship, and noisy music, leaving little to be nostalgically longed after by circus devotees except possibly the Wallendas, who used to ride bicycles across high wires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

Inveighed most strongly against the present setup is the polar aloofness between advisor and advisee. In theory, the relationship is the ground-breaker for tutorial; it acquaints the student with the broader aspects of his field of concentration through the friendly medium of a personal association. It provides that the advisor's work with his charge shall transcend the signing of a study card, and that he shall attempt to awaken the latter's interest in the educational enterprise, or, finding it awake, pass him along into the tutorial program where he belongs. Where tutorial is too strictly limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pride of the Finest | 4/13/1948 | See Source »

...public questions fundamentally opposes Administration policy but keeps equally clear of Henry A. Wallace. On the domestic front he is pro-labor and eloquently defends minority rights and civil liberties. In defining the tieup between the national and international scene he outlines three basic and irreconcilable differences separating the polar forces of the globe. Democratic political philosophy in the first place rejects the absolutes characteristic of the totalitarian Right and the totalitarian Left. It furthermore shuns that political technique intended "to transform one small clique of men into the State." But most crucial of the distinctions marking American-Russian hostility...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Justice Douglas Tosses a Credo into the Ring | 4/7/1948 | See Source »

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