Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women of my generation. My own daughter, who is 14 years old, will be taller than either her father or myself, and I feel certain that this is due to her enthusiastic entrance into all sports. In Japan the girls are showing enthusiasm for tennis, basketball, swimming and pole vaulting. Perhaps the most remarkable spectacle of these days is to see a party of Japanese girls climbing Mount Fiji. Ten or fifteen years ago this was unheard...
...Senate-Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West (see The Cabinet, "West Case"). The list, fairly certain to be approved in toto, included Utah's J. Reuben Clark, Under Secretary of State; Tennessee's H. Theodore Tate, Treasurer of the U. S.; Ohio's John W. Pole to be Comptroller of Currency; William S. Culbertson of Kansas, Ambassador to Chile; also five Ministers, a Farm Loan Board man, a dozen postmasters...
Explorer Byrd, at Dunedin, last week,, was 3,000 miles from the South Pole. That does not seem far. Yet Portland, Ore., and Millinocket, Me., are 3,000 miles from the North Pole; so too Lyons, France, and Venice, Italy...
...across it, joining the Ross and Weddell Seas. There are mountain ranges. They may be extensions of the Andes; they may be related to the formations of the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Those Antarctica mountains and the tremendous ice cap help make the South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole is light. Melting of South Polar ice may account for the axial wobbling that the Earth goes through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives...
...cities. Nonetheless it wants business builders to settle there and for that purpose hired a smart secretary for its Chamber of Commerce-Milton M. Murray. When Bernt Balchen (who is with Commander Byrd now) and the late Floyd Bennett were testing the Josephine Ford plane for the Byrd North Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights. That experience gave him a personal interest in the present Byrd expedition; his job gave him a practical interest. Hence his cablegram to Commander Byrd last week: "Dunedin, Florida, joins...