Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...localness of the Adelie wind suggested that it might be caused by some peculiar topographical feature in inland Antarctica, but no one was sure until U.S. Navy airplanes recently explored the region between the South Pole and Wilkes Land. According to Dr. Paul A. Siple, just returned from Antarctica, the flying explorers found a great sloping trough 200 to 300 miles wide between a high mountain range west of the Ross Ice Shelf and a dome of ice. The trough leads south from the coast, and its high inland end may reach the South Pole (see map). During the Antarctic...
...College language problem could of course be solved by making a minimal language proficiency a prerequisite to admission. Such a solution would, however, close the University to graduates from the schools which are unable, because of faculty or funds, to offer sufficient language training. At the other pole, is the college which advises "all the preparation possible" and at the same time assures the prospective student that he can easily meet the requirement in college. Harvard tends toward the latter extreme...
Captain Art Siler uncorked the best toss of his career, 50 feet, 5 inches, to take second in the shotput. Jack Murphy leaped 5 feet 10 inches to tie for third in the high jump, while Kip Smith's 13 foot pole vault gave him a tie for fourth...
Against the best of Ivy League track, the varsity will be hard-pressed to score in the other events. Pole vaulters Kip Smith and Don Williams, Ed Carter and Art Martin in the hurdles, dashmen Norm Bruck and Art Mayo, and milers Phil Williams and Ken Wilson will have to better their top previous efforts to place high...
Charging past the 16th-pole, the four great horses seemed almost to be running in harness. Tensely the crowd at Florida's Hialeah race track watched the melee of heads and hoofs. The spectacle was a tribute to the talent of Handicapper Charles McLennon, who had carefully weighted the entrants in the mile-and-a-quarter Widener. There was Nashua (running for the first time since he was bought by a syndicate from the Woodward estate for $1,251,200), lugging 127 Ibs.; "the Big Horse" was inching up gamely on Alfred Vanderbilt's Find (114 Ibs.). Between...