Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been an enemy of everything that is noblest and best in our American tradition. . . . There is not a cesspool of vice and crime which Hearst has not raked and exploited for money-making purposes. No person with intellectual honesty or moral integrity will touch him with a ten-foot pole for any purpose or to gain...
...points to Harvard's 16½. Henry Dreyer of Rhode Island State beat all indoor and outdoor records by throwing a 35-lb. weight 56 ft. 9 in. Keith Brown of Yale won the high-jump championship at 6 ft. 4 in., moved over to the pole-vault runway and beat his own intercollegiate record by sailing over the crossbar...
Tall, mild-mannered Keith Brown, who hopes to clear 14 ft. 6 in. before he graduates next June, is the latest addition to an extraordinary line of Yale pole-vaulters who, starting with Thomas Shearman in 1888, have since won the intercollegiate championship 20 times. Recent Yale pole-vaulters, like Sabin Carr, Olympic champion in 1928, and his contemporary Fred Sturdy, owe their success less to the New Haven climate than to the most famed of all the vaulters who preceded them, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Olympic champion in 1908. Gilbert's study of pole-vaulting over 30 years...
Gilbert's vaulting career began when he pulled a cedar rail off a farmer's fence near his Idaho home, whittled it into a vaulting pole. At Yale, in 1907, he discovered the fact that bamboo poles had more spring, less chance of breaking off in a point than spruce. He became the first man to clear the alarming height of 13 ft. (unofficially). When he returned from the Olympic Games in London, Vaulter Gilbert brought back 50 bamboo poles which cost $1.25 each and sold them for $25 each. After this venture he went into the magic...
Operation of this theoretical submarine depends on a fact familiar to high-school chemistry students-that water separates into its component gases when an electric current is passed through it, hydrogen collecting on the negative pole, oxygen on the positive. While under way on the surface the submarine's engines burn a mixture of oil and hydrogen, have enough reserve power to drive an electric generator. This generator furnishes current to an electrolyzer which turns water into hydrogen and oxygen under pressure. The excess hydrogen and all the oxygen are stored in steel tanks...