Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native state), but he won the Belmont by 20 lengths. One good horse, John P. Grier, made Red extend himself one day at Aqueduct, and nobody who saw the race will ever forget it. The pair of them ran nose-&-nose, breaking world's records at every furlong pole along the way (the five furlongs in 157 2/5, the six furlongs in 1:09, the mile in 1:35 3/5, the mile and one-eighth in 1:49 1/5). When John P. Grier stuck his neck in front of Big Red in the stretch, a murmur of amazement came...
...magnetic pole of the geography books, the U.S.A.F. added, had moved from Canada's bleak Somerset Island, where it had last been reported (TIME, Nov. 4, 1946), over 100 miles to Prince of Wales Island. The two newcomers, both "local poles," turned up on Bathurst Island and Boothia Peninsula; and the whole magnetic field, the U.S.A.F. said, is contained in one big ellipse...
...Ottawa, the R.C.A.F., which had helped the U.S. expedition, received the news calmly. The Canadians have been doing a little mapping on their own, will soon announce the location of their own magnetic pole (just one) on Prince of Wales Island. The magnetic pole, according to the R.C.A.F., moves around quite a bit* -about 80 miles a day, usually (but not always) in an east-west direction-and at better-than-union hours: from...
Since magnetic readings in the vicinity of the pole are believed to vary widely at different altitudes, and since all U.S. data was obtained from planes, the Canadians have a hunch that the three U.S. poles are really just one fast-stepping pole. Quipped one R.C.A.F. bigwig: "The Americans are always at least two better than...
...Scientists have long suspected the magnetic pole of shiftiness. Ever since Sir James Ross first located (or thought he located) it in 1832, the pole has been rediscovered periodically, usually in a new spot. As recently as last year crewmen of the Army's Hawaii-to-Egypt polar plane, Pacusan Dreamboat, found it at some distance from its old habitat on Boothia Peninsula...