Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prow of the Nahlin is an Indian totem pole base from which sprouts as a figurehead an Indian chief with.flowing headdress, peering ahead. On final orders from the Admiralty, the Nahlin nosed this week into the minute Balkan port of Sibenik, between Zara and Split, there picked up King Edward & Friends...
...garbage to rascal, mucker or good-for-nothing. Many a good Nazi has privately called Herr Streicher far worse. But the corollary of Streicher's philosophy that "A Jew is always a Jew," is "A German is always a German, even if he lives at the North Pole...
...descent from the pole, shielded from direct view as it was by the tent, might have been accomplished in a number of ways. . . . Probably the manner of attaching the horizontal bar to the upright stick was such that, while supporting the Yogi, the bar could still be caused by vibration, to slide intermittently down the pole. To illustrate this process, take a round stick and a flat stick with a hole in one end the size of the cross-section of the round stick; slip the hole of the flat stick over the round stick, and attach a weight...
This demonstrates the principle of one possible way in which the descent may have been effected, the horizontal rod in this case projecting out from the vertical pole through the folds in the drape, and being disjoined and disposed of before the removal of the tent. But there are several other possible methods that the semi-secrecy of the tent would have permitted. In any event, Plunkett's assertion that "evidently we were not meant to see this part of the performance, or it would all have been done in the open" is incredibly...
...track addicts. Last week 40,000 eyes focused on this talented trio of milers as they jogged around Princeton's sun-baked track in the first lap of the Amateur Athletic Union's 1,500-metre championship run. Suddenly a tiny group intent on the pole vault let out a roar. What had happened, spectator asked spectator? A husky, blond San Franciscan by the name of George Varoff, they learned, had just twisted over the bar at the incredible height of 14 ft., 6½ in. By the time the crowd leaned back again on Palmer Stadium...