Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alike. . . . We should all be intent on maintaining our own institutions and customs, preserving the purity of our own language and literature, fostering the ideals of our own culture and society. In a territory reaching from the north temperate zone?? through the tropics to the South Pole, there is room enough for every worthy activity which is profitable and every ideal which is good...
...RUINS?Philip Gibbs? Doubleday Doran ($2.50). When an old mustached rascal startled a credulous world by asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated. The record of his discreet queries and of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's vague ambiguous replies soon made him the hero and Dr. Cook a laughingstock. Since then the Doctor has been put behind the bars of Leavenworth, Kan. prison, while his suave interrogator has become a famed correspondent, a knight, a novelist, and now a short story writer...
Continuing his discussions with the CRIMSON on America's chances at the Olympics, Coach E. L. Farrell, University track coach said that in the field events the United States outranked the Europeans in the high jump, the pole vault, the discus throw and the broad jump...
...Robert Edwin Peary who set out from New York on July 6, 1908 thereby conceiving success and bringing it forth exactly nine months later to the day when he came in sight of the North Pole. Only one of his original party remained with him- a Negro - and four of the 22 Eskimos...
...Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is no man of leisure. Last week, waiting on an island in Currituck for a Navy plane to fetch him and his dead ducks, Mr. Robinson grew impatient. Currituck was freezing. The Navy must be run. Up he got and helped his guide push, pole and slide their boat through Currituck ice to the mainland...