Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bystanders appealed for axes to help get the horses out. The firemen, aware that insurance on their equipment was void if the equipment was damaged outside Boise, quick-wittedly refused. While the horses burned to death in screeching agony, Boise's firemen played their hose on a telegraph pole across the street from the fire, to protect it from the flames...
...TIME'S ear, a trimotored airplane, colliding with a pole, breaking apart in mid-air and striking the ground, makes noise. As near as TIME and the English alphabet could catch the sound, it was whop, crack and smash. Do other readers agree with Writer de Lany...
...Death at Daytona" in your Aug. 23 issue, for example: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
...mainland, 2,000 miles directly above Minneapolis, and separates Boothia Peninsula from Somerset Island. (Barrow Strait, 150 miles further north, separates Somerset Island from Cornwallis Island.) Bellot Strait, situated on the 72nd parallel 400 miles inside the Arctic Circle, is also just 150 miles north of the North Magnetic Pole-so close that ships' compasses are useless. Explorers have known that if it were used it would cut 100 mi. from the Baffin Bay-Barrow Strait passage, save 400 miles if the still untraversed Fury and Hecla Strait were navigable. In 1858, after his fifth attempt, Captain Leopold McClintock...
...Across the Pole is the Northeast Passage to China along the top of Norway & Russia. Sebastian Cabot initiated its search in 1553. Henry Hudson twice attempted a passage but it was not until 1879 that the route was navigated. Now Russia currently operates 160 freighters on summer schedules in the Northeast Passage's more open but colder waters...