Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Norway has lost her greatest citizen, the discoverer of the South Pole. Italy has got back a "hero" who became such when he, Nobile, was employed by an American financier to act, under the guidance of Amundsen, as captain of the Norge. [(TIME...
...Norwegian, my blood boiled at these words which I have kept. But perhaps we are a patient people. Our newspapers continued not unfriendly to Nobile; and when he set out in the Italia, a dirigible of his own design, to prove that he, he, HE could circle the Pole, we wished him well. It was only when the faulty design of the Italia caused her to crumple, that my own heart became troubled. Too well I knew, as did all Norwegians, that Amundsen would feel compelled to rescue Nobile, because the Italian had wronged...
Other Californians who qualified are Lee Barnes in the pole vault, Robert King in the high jump, Clarence Houser in the discus throw, Levi Casey in the hop, step and jump...
...Bennett, unable to live on her pension as widow of famed Air Pilot Floyd Bennett, peddles life insurance policies in Brooklyn. Last week, she sold her first policy. The purchaser: Charles H. Colvin, of the Pioneer Instrument Co., manufacturers of instruments used by Aviator Bennett flying to the North Pole...
...national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon on points would have the flag of its nation higher on a tall flag pole in view of all spectators. This would lead to excitement and incipient rioting at all times. The couples should be made to execute a valse for one hour, a fox trot for the next, a polka...