Word: poling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...featured, including an 80-yd. dash, 160 yd. dash, 330-yard run, 660-yard run, three-quarters of a mile, a mile and a half run, 80-yard hurdles, and 120-yard lows. Field events will include the high jump, broad jump, 12-pound shot, 30-pound weight. pole vault, javelin, and discus. A three-man dash relay team is also planned for each dormitory. Blue books are located in the Union, Dudley Hall, and at the Field House, in which participants are to sign...
...Radio Amateur's Handbook by Technical Expert Ross A. Hull. Recently Expert Hull began experimenting with television reception, assembled specially powerful and sensitive equipment to receive RCA-NBC television transmission in his Vernon cottage (near Hartford, Conn.). He temporarily rigged up a 2½-kilowatt, 4,400-volt pole transformer. Last week it killed...
...heir to the Spanish throne, who in 1933 renounced his right of succession to marry first one commoner and then another; of his family disease, hemophilia,* brought on by injuries when the car in which he was being driven by a night-club cigaret-girl smashed into a telegraph pole; in Miami, Fla. In accordance with directions cabled by his royal parents, he was buried on the spot, with simple Catholic rites...
According to astronomical theory no force external to the earth can produce large changes in its rotation on its axis. As for surface changes on the earth. Dr. Brown rules them out. Older theories held that accumulations of ice and snow at the poles might slow up the earth's speed. But the least amount of frozen water necessary to slow up the earth would have changed the average sea level all over the world by about a foot. This has not happened. The weight of mountains and force of volcanoes are also inconsiderable. Even if the whole group...
...Alaska: 1) Harold Le Clair Ickes & Bride accepted carved totem pole pins from Indian schoolchildren at Ketchikan; 2) Senator Reynolds of North Carolina slew a 3,000-lb. bull walrus which, wounded, charged his hunting party's boats off Wainwright...