Word: poled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pole vault, Owen Torrey and Bill Lawrence both cleared 11 feet, six inches on their third hoists to tie for first...
...completion last week. It was being built at Nevis, Columbia University's atomic country estate near Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. The 2,300-ton magnet (whose concentrated field will make electrified particles whirl in obedient circles) has been assembled out of 60-ton steel chunks. The drum-shaped pole pieces in the center will be wound with coils containing 150 tons of copper. The building, to be banked with earth to block deadly radiation, is finished...
...said, "I figure the way it happened was this. Around the North Pole and the South Pole snow falls year after year but it doesn't melt. It falls and packs down, and more falls and packs down, and that kept on until after a million years or so the old world got top-heavy on each end of the axis...
...symbol of the new Poland when I went to call on a quite ordinary Pole in Warsaw. His address turned out to be a large building with several entries. Since I had no apartment number for him, I asked a man for directions...
...records, "Tiger Rag," is similar to an older American version, except that the final trumpet solo has the phrase "I wandered today to the hill, Maggic" instead of the earlier "Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around the flag pole." Continuing in the community song vein later on are snatches from "Tea For Two" and "Pat On Your Old Grey Bonnet...