Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have only one request." said Gromov. "Permit us to fly from Moscow to America over the North Pole...
...Andrey Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Danilin climbed aboard their big, red-winged monoplane at Moscow's Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making about 100 m.p.h. On the "down" side they picked up radio communication with Anchorage (Alaska), Seattle and San Francisco, reported their position occasionally but not regularly. They were...
...This week another crew of Soviet flyers was winging its way from Moscow across the top of the world toward an unannounced destination on the west coast of the U. S. Near the North Pole the three flyers radioed that ''everything is in order...
...discovery and classification of a great stream of galaxies, the greatest of metagalactic clouds. It is 50,000,000 light-years long, 20,000,000 wide. Discovered on plates taken at Harvard's Southern Hemisphere station in South Africa, it lies athwart the sky near the Fouth celestial pole. Fifteen thousand galaxies or "island universes" were counted in it, all of them below the 16th magnitude in brightness. At first the cloud was classed simply as a "major irregularity." But the savants at Cambridge reasoned that it must contain at least 35,000 galaxies not apparent on the photographs...
...summer meeting, and one of the sectional conferences was that of the Society for Research on Meteorites, of which Dr. Nininger is secretary. He had been waiting for this occasion and he was much in evidence-slim, dark, bespectacled, lecturing in a deep, pleasant voice, pointing a bamboo fishing pole at his lantern slides. He gave three talks, introduced two of the other speakers...