Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week after Pole Beck had returned to Warsaw, Danzig's private Führer Forster ended a speech in Berlin with this cryptic remark...
...while Ogden is an orthologist and psychologist and Richards is an esthetician, important contributions have been made by a Polish mathematician, Count Alfred Korzybski, and a Harvard physicist, Percy Williams Bridgman. Semantics ranges from the equator of Basic English through the lush tropics of political bunkum to the North Pole of James Joyce's word-coining...
Soizing a ladder and pole kept on the bank by the metropolitan district commission for emergency use, the rescuers made their way out to the floundering youngster and pulled him up on the stronger ice to safety...
Tragedy at the Quarter Pole, a piece which has the curious, wooden silence of a sporting audience when somebody gets killed: a jockey's white legs, half doubled up, seen through a crowd on the track: two men bringing a mattress; an interne bending over; in the background the striped quarter pole, and a jagged arm thrown up by the broken fence...
...smashed, most of the crew were laid out. The captain decided to turn back. For six days the L-9 was lost. The weather grew colder and the days darker, until the sun broke through, revealed that the submarine had been heading in the general direction of the North Pole...