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Word: poling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scribbled rather carefully in pencil--on the dining room table just after the supper dishes had been cleared away. About this time of year, it was, too. Annually, it must have caused Mr. Farley's postal predecessor some trouble. The address was a little vague. Just North Pole. But it got through, You always knew what to bring. All in all, it was a remarkable performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Miss Faye, surprisingly effective in a role with no lyrics, very little legs, and custard pies in the face, plays the part of a Broadway star who comes to Hollywood at the instigation of Ameche. Though she marries the wrong man first, he contrives to drive into a telegraph pole at the crucial movement, thus leaving the road open to dour Don. In spite of an overdose of Ameche and the triteness of the plot, Buster Keaton and the Cops make it worth dodging through the maniac drivers on Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

...pleasure of discovering, in 1937, a town in Guatemala whose inhabitants had never heard of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Wallis Warfield Windsor, the Dionne Quintuplets. Last week Dr. Redfield declared that the big city pattern, to be thoroughly understood, should be studied in the light of its opposite pole-the primitive tribe-and of intermediate societies such as peasants. Peasants may seem to be primitive in their simple, stable way of life but they have definite urban connections if they can read, vote, go to school, use machines and send their produce to markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson obtained five falls in winning the Varsity meet as Captain Bill Daughaday, Ted Schoenberg. Diek Thomas, Pole Himan, and Tudor Gardiner pinned their opponents. Thomas, Sophomore scissors artist, threw his opponent, Drennan, in less than a minute and a half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAPPLERS DOWN M.I.T. BY DECISIVE 33-3 SCORE | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...some oil stock frauds, served five years in prison. His friends said he was an innocent figurehead who had been deceived by the embezzlers. Three years ago he sued the Encyclopaedia Britannica, two publishers and a writer for "discrediting" his claim to the discovery of the North Pole. To date he has collected nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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