Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measuring the magnetism of ancient rocks. Both volcanic and sedimentary rocks, as they are formed, tend to become magnetized by the earth's magnetic field. Their magnetism, though very feeble, is parallel to the magnetic field that formed it, pointing like a compass needle toward the magnetic pole...
...much longer are we going to keep putting the national-defense cart before the horse? America's first line of defense is no longer Europe. It is in Detroit, Pittsburgh. Washington, New York, in the air over the North Pole. And Europe's first line of defense is in the same place. The corollary is that the best thing we could possibly do for Europe is to make America secure...
...summer home 15 miles north of Ottawa, the late Prime Minister Mackenzie King used to walk visitors to the boundary of his property and point toward the misty, blue-green hills to the north. "Beyond this point," he would say, "there is nothing but the North Pole...
There was insufficient time to build an intricately synchronized moving platform to carry the camera around the pole. Instead, Strock found a way to work with the camera's own built-in turntable rotating at a speed synchronized with the exposure of a 6-ft.½-film strip. But this turntable could only be set up at one side of the pole. And inevitably the pole was going to block one section of the battle scene as the camera rotated within the cyclorama...
...solve this problem, Strock put his camera and turntable on an ingenious sliding platform. When the camera reached the point where the pole got in the way of the continuous picture, the platform - and camera - were pulled smoothly to a new position which permitted a clear view of the final section of the cyclorama...