Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every Pole believes, on account of the present protection which the Government gives to industry, that the Premier is his special clerk. All my dear Ministers were pleased to push all their work on to me. For this reason I learned to hate the office. The only way of escape was by resignation. . . . However, I told the President I should be available for service in critical times. The control of international Polish policies still remains in my hands." The Prime Minister of the new Cabinet, formed last week, is Dr. Kazimir Bartel, previously Vice-Prime Minister. Marshal Pilsudski continues...
...extremes, representing as they do the antipodes of the life of the University in its entirety, are nevertheless typical and like most extremes they meet. The University world revolves on a substantial axis which places the academic at one pole, the athletic at the other, and successfully links them together by the social medium. Comparisons appear particularly odious here, but at no time during the college year are the two almost diametrically opposite sides placed in a more revealing juxtaposition and permitted to illustrate more admirably the fluctuation in the universal graduate and undergraduate mind. For, while there are some...
...blind you can't play games in which balls are used. You can't box, play hockey or lacrosse, pole vault, or fence. But you can do the broad jump, the hop, step, and jump, the standing high jump, and the shot put. You can also run races, though for that there has to be a special equipment and because this equipment is hard to fix up for long distances blind men usually only run sprints...
Father Gianfranchesci, chaplain of the expedition, telling his beads in Kings Bay, pinched himself to make sure he was alive. Chosen to drop the cross upon the Pole, he had his mystic misgivings. So when Signora Nobile wired her Polar Pilgrim to drop the cross with his own hands for luck, the good Father gladly remained behind...
Seven times in the last eight years the Intercollegiate Games have been won by a California college. Last week Stanford, true to precedent, was first at Cambridge, 17⅔ points ahead of Yale. The big event was the pole vault in which the three best vaulters in the world competed-Ward Edmonds of Stanford, Les Barnes of Southern California, and Sabin Carr of Yale. Carr won without breaking any records. Only two men scored double firsts, Ray Barbuti (Syracuse) in the 220 and 440, and Eric Krenz (Stanford) in the discus and shot put. Illinois, regular winner in the middle...