Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government may conscript all property and, by implication, money. In peace time, under a subsection of this second decree, the State may order factories adapted for quick conversion to war use. The third decree law permits the Government to clap into jail for five years any Pole who supplies information to a foreign government which could be used against Poland in case of war. Since the decree is so drawn that it can be made to cover even ordinary economic news printed in a daily paper, Polish publishers were incensed last week...
...decision was quickly made. Turning to the right, he retreated a few yards into the stream, and began towing the pole upstream toward Newell. Arrived near the end of the float, he pushed the post ahead, swam to the dock, climbed nimbly out, and hoisted up his prize. Secure from the angrily shouting crowd, he turned and politely doffed his hat three times, then proceeded across the float to the far side, dragging the guerdon...
Handicaps are now being made out from trials being held every afternoon. The schedule of events will be: Wednesday--100 meter dash, 110-meter high hurdles, 200 meter low hurdles, 400 and 800 meter runs. (The trials and finals for these events will start at 2 o'clock). Thursday--pole vault and high jump. (These events will be run off in the old cage, starting at 2 o'clock). Gold medals are to be awarded to all first and second place winners...
Loping over the Equatorial highlands of Kenya, about midway along-Africa's Cape Town-to-Cairo all-British backbone, a giraffe ran into a telegraph pole last fortnight and interrupted the African telegraph service the late great Cecil Rhodes was always worrying about. The news humming over the wires before the giraffe butted in would have interested Rhodes...
...round-the-world ships, sunk them to the bottom of deep lakes, taken them down in mines, flown them in airplanes, sent them up in balloons manned and unmanned. All over the world, from Panama to Ceylon, from the Equator to within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole, they have carried a cosmic quest which has cost at least two lives. It has been found that cosmic rays are either particles of matter or units of radiation, or both, with energies of billions of electron volts, energies beyond the power of any man-made device to reproduce. They bombard...