Word: poling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physiologists Britton and Kline went down to Panama, collected a few sloths (which are fairly tame and amenable) and got to work. First, they clocked the animals' normal progress along the underside of a horizontal pole. Speed of a two-toed sloth: a third of a mile an hour. Speed of a three-toed sloth: two-ninths of a mile an hour...
...their way back from the South Pole in March 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party perished of starvation and cold. To his wife, Kathleen, Explorer Scott wrote: "I must write a little letter for the boy if time can be found, to be read when he grows up. The inherited vice from my side of the family is indolence-above all he must guard, and you must guard him, against that. I had to force myself into being strenuous...
With the exception of the substitution of a three-mile for a two-mile run, the track events in the meet will not differ from American distance. The field events, however, will be pared down to broad jump, high jump, pole vault, and shot put, criminating the discus, hammer and javelin thrown...
...turns a gigantic somersault, once every 24 hours, because of the earth's daily rotation on its axis. If he lives half way between the North Pole and the Equator, this motion carries him along along at some 700 miles per hour...
...Mister," Miss Lillian Wolfson; "Sister Mister", Miss Francis Morrison; "Sadie," Miss Sarah Kruskall; "Ella," Mrs. Lynn Gordon; "Gent" and "Junior Mister," Myron Simons '40; "Mr. Mister" and "Dick," William A. Whitcraft '39; "Cop," Rendigs Fols '39; "Reverend Salvation" and "Stevie," Kendall Smith 3G; "Editor Daily and Dauber," Rupert Pole '40; "Yasha," Arthur Szathmary 2G; "Prexy," Robert Rothschild '39; "Scoot," Jonas Muller '40; "Doctor Specialist," Alfred Eisner '39; "Druggist," John Wahlke '39; "Bugs," Robert Seidman '41 and "Gus Polack," Roger Henselman...