Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nadelman had his first show in a Paris gallery in 1909. His command of classic sculpture caused so much talk that Matisse put up a sign in his studio, forbidding discussion of Nadelman. The sculptor was then 27, a shy, handsome Pole in a turtleneck sweater who stayed away from the cafes, almost never left his studio except for long walks at night...
...distances. May be it's pure luck that they consistently have so much good material to work with, but that luck seems to be with them for at least another year. In today's 3:45 Varsity race, Boh Black, National AAU and IOIA champion, will go to the pole for the Rams. With him will be virtually all of the same team that took nine first places in last year's triangular meet that included Boston University...
Despite the city environment, however, an attempt is made to preserve a little of the rah-rah spirit that is usually found only in a small-town college. The chief item in this effort is the Freshman--Sophomore rush, a traditional event in which the Sophomores defend a greased pole which the Freshmen are supposed to fight through to and climb in order to capture a dummy at the top of the pole. Freshman victories are unusual...
...from his perch 200 feet above Long Beach's Virginia Amusement Park, after setting a new world's record for flagpole sitting-52 days, 13 hours, and 58 minutes. In San Francisco, Milton ("Shipwreck") Van Nolan, 22, settled himself more firmly in his cowboy saddle on a pole above Horsetrader Ed's Kar Korral, swore he would break Ozzie's record...
This capsizing of the earth happens periodically, Brown believes. The last time it caused Noah's flood. One pole was then in the Sudan, and Noah and his family lived in temperate South Africa. "In the 600th year of Noah's life . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."* No geophysicist, Noah did not realize that the poles had shifted...