Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Report of further experiments to prove his bipolar theory of life came from Cleveland's Dr. George Washington Crile. He considers that every living cell is a tiny electrical cell, that the body is a battery with the brain the positive pole and the liver the negative pole (TIME, Aug. 30. 1926). Last week he reported that he had found that every living cell has a definite electrical potential, or tension; that as that potential decreases the cell becomes enfeebled until it dies. When an electric current with a potential opposite to that of a cell is passed through...
...Pole vault R. M. Fason '32, Oscar Sutermeister...
...Record '32 in the hurdles and J. W. Crickard '32 in the dashes. N. P. Hallowell '32 and G. N. Barrie '32 are counted on for places in the half-mile and mile respectively, while, in the field events, Oscar Sutermeister '32 is expected to star in the pole vault...
...news nothing is too hard for the Times to tackle, nothing too high It financed Peary to the North Pole, is backing Byrd at the South Pole. Covering a suburban murder trial, it leased an entire house to take care of its correspondents, their machines and helpers. Automobiles, trains, airplanes, ships- whatever a Times newshawk needs he gets...
...huge basin, others that they hug the outside of a basin upside down. No one knows. Explorer Wilkins found a depth of 17,000 feet (3½ miles) off Point Barrow. Amundsen found 15,000 feet off Spitsbergen. Peary dropped a 3,000-ft. rope at the Pole and could not touch bottom...