Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cottonwood gradually fade into the boundless levels of the tundra. Here is the world which "knows but two seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia is sold at so much per piece...
...Frederick A. Cook, who claimed to be the first man to have reached the North Pole, threatened to bring a libel action (Author Mirsky had glacially described his account of his polar trip as "exciting and well-written, but . . . mainly fiction")*.-Now-revised, mapped, brought up to date-this magnificent history is again available to the public...
Since they emerged from Briggs Cage a week or so ago, squad members have been pretty well split up. Milers and two-milers have been going along the river bank, "nice, easy speed up to Police Station and back" (a distance of 31/ miles), the pole-vaulters have used the runway under the Stadium grandstand, and most of the field men have warmed up out behind the baseball grandstand...
Freshman track mentor Doug Pirnie, faced with a serious manpower shortage, issued an urgent call for men yesterday afternoon. "We have no quarter-milers, pole vaulters, or javelin throwers," he said, and few good men in other events...
Probable Varsity pointmen: S. Felton, R. Forsyth--35-pound weight; G. Tootell--shot; A. Lockett, W. Lawrence--pole vault; J. Spivak--60-yard dash; F. Gurley--1000; A. Ruby, D. Hamblait. H. Thayer, A. Edelman--one mile relay...