Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gone are the legendary draveurs who. jeering at death as they twirled long pike poles like batons, rode great logs down white water to the mills. In Quebec's 325-mile-long St. Maurice River valley, scene of the world's biggest log drive each year, the treacherous...
In some degree this tension pulls at all peoples. In the American case, both the progressive and conservative poles are stronger, and the tension between them is maintained without crackup through the extraordinary political and philosophical character which the revolutionary colonists gave to the U.S. in its painful years of...
As a keel-wetter for last week's race, a 300-yd. water slalom was run off at Salida. Its course, laid out by Experts Bock and Seidel, was marked by a dozen sets of red and green poles. Boats had to pass the poles to right or left...
Stalag 17 (Paramount), the 1951 Broadway hit about a Nazi prison camp, is as rowdily entertaining on the screen as it was on the stage. In the play, Authors Edmund Trzcinski and Donald Devan drew on some of their experiences while they were interned with 40,000 other prisoners of...
¶Despite a timely warning from President Gilbert F. White, who told them to stay out of trouble or "rot in jail," Haverford students invaded the neighboring Bryn Mawr campus. Failing to tear down decorated poles set up for Bryn Mawr's May Day celebration, the Haverfordmen poured gasoline...