Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russkoye Ustye began to pall after a time. Zenzinov had been given permission to move around anywhere in the district. Again with the idea of eventual escape, he set out to Verkhoyansk, "the pole of cold." This village was many miles to the south but set in a basin where cold air settles and few winds blow. Zenzinov one day in January, 1913 noted a temperature of 95.4° below Zero. In Verkhoyansk, says he, if "you take a glass of water and dash it high into the air, the liquid will come down in the form of ringing crystals...
...picture where the love story is practically forgotten and there is shown a journalistic record of a perilous and picturesque method of earning a livelihood. Producer Frissell secured an old-time sealing boat, the Viking, and the services of Captain Bob Bartlett, who skippered Admiral Peary to the Pole and has since realized handsomely on the exploit, to sail it. Better still, he secured a cast of 250 Newfoundland "swilers," photographed them honestly engaged in a real seal-hunt...
...yard dash--Young (Y) and Watkins; 220-yard dash, Boyd (Y) and Ingham (Y); 440-yard run, Dodge and Warner (Y); half mile and mile run, Hallowell, Estes, Cobb, and Fobes; three-mile run, Fox and Foote; high hurdles, Record and DeVoe (Y); low hurdles, Record and Fates (Y); pole vault, Sutermeister and Pierce (Y); high jump, Kuehn and Whiteside (Y); broad jump, Farrell (Y) and Morse; shot put, Kilcullen (Y) and Crowley...
...route to be taken was undetermined -even the direction was undecided. The Lindberghs might fly east from New York across the Arctic Circle via Labrador, Greenland and Spitsbergen to Peiping, a course that would take them only 850 mi. from the North Pole. Or they might fly west across northern U. S. or Canada (where water stops are plentiful) to Seattle. British Columbia or Alaska, thence to bear along the Aleutian Islands, the southmost tip of Kamchatka, Siberia and across the stepping stones of the Kurile Islands to Japan...
...situation was precisely that one which, so gloriously pictured in sporting fiction, is enacted so badly in most real sport events. Graber, a dark, handsome, nonchalant youth, clung to a bamboo pole painted green at the bottom, slightly longer and more springy than two others which he had brought with him from the Coast. A chipper young fellow, he had brought also a small red camera with which he expected his teammate Pete Chlentzos to take his picture when he set a new record. Chlentzos stood behind him now, patting the lower part of his back, repeating...