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Word: poled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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From where the ship is moored, which happens to be alongside the Standard Oil Dock at Shanghai, we can see two Chinamen bring aboard two fifty-gallon drums of gasoline, weighing approximately three hundred and fifty pounds each, on a YA-HO pole.* Does any Pullman passenger's baggage weigh that much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...bamboo pole carried on the shoulders of one or two Chinamen with the load suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...dual meet at Hanover Saturday, the University track forces should let the Dartmouth runners down to their fourth defeat in as many seasons. The hope for another Crimson victory lies in its superior power in the 880, mile and two-mile runs, in the broad jump and pole vault, and in the weight events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IS FAVORED IN DARTMOUTH GAMES | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

First place in the broad jump will probably go to A. E. French '29, with second and third counting for Dartmouth. B. G. Burbank '29, in the pole vault, is expected to clear the bar considerably over the high mark of Putnam of the Big Green aggregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IS FAVORED IN DARTMOUTH GAMES | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

Died. Floyd Bennett, 37, pilot of the first airplane to fly to the North Pole and back; of pneumonia; at Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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