Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conquerors of the Arctic (filmed by Mark Troyanovsky;* released by Amkino) films the conquest of the North Pole last May (TIME, May 31) by airmen and scientists of the Soviet Union. It follows the grim fight of determined men against howling Arctic weather, flies with them via Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights...
...final speaker, Mikkola prophesied, "We had a good team last year, but this year it will be very good. We have outstanding athletes. But we need more two-milers, pole vaulters, javelin throwers, discus throwers, and milers...
...because she was forcing her older sons to rustle cattle, she squeezed out of it by prostituting a pretty daughter to the sheriff. When her youngest son, Ward, fell in love with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor neighbor boy named Rene, Mother Slogum decided to teach both children a lesson, sent her brutal brother and two sons...
...scholarship holders in the past most prominent are Victory H. Harding '31 and Stanton Whitney, Jr. '34, Varsity football players, and Oscar Sutermeister '33, the pole-vaulter...
...first 175 pages he has written a good man's story, a story that many a pulp mag zine carries every month. Not, however, one that a high-class magazine, such as the Post or Scribner's would touch with a ten-foot pole. After that, with the exception of a few lines about the hero's death and his wife, the rest has no more relation to the first than day has to night...