Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet record of 55 feet 5 inches a year ago, in the 35-pound weight throw, and Donald Blount of Dartmouth in the broad jump. Blount also tied for first place in the high jump and Tom Lussen of Yale tied for first in the pole vault...
...only seven years old." Last week, opposite the Glatt's house in Newark, N. J., a bright new mailbox ap peared on a telegraph pole. It was still across the street and much too high for Bunny, but for once proud Mrs. Glatt stretched a point. While she watched for cars, Bunny carrying an empty wooden box. darted across, stood tiptoe on the box, proudly posted another letter to the President...
...March 2, 1938, the Sedov had drifted 3° north. 21° east. On that day the drift of the ice floes shifted and the three ships began to move northwestward toward the North Pole. Meanwhile Joseph Stalin had sent an air expedition to rescue the crews. The fliers reached the ships on April 2, promptly arrested Professor Samoilovich for bungling, thereby giving him the distinction of being arrested closer to the North Pole than any other man in history...
...Glavnoye Upravlenya, Severnovo Morskovo Puty (Central Administration of the Northern Sea Route-Glavsevmorput' for short), kicked its chief. Professor Otto Schmidt, upstairs into a vice-presidency of the Academy of Sciences, named 46-year-old Ivan Papanin (who had made himself famous by drifting from the North Pole almost to central Greenland on an ice pan) to be head of Glavsevmorput'. Then the Soviet press started whooping up the drift of the Sedov as a national adventure story. Its goals: to drift closer to the North Pole than Nansen's celebrated Fram (1893-96); if possible...
...their customers, keep them in touch with local gossip. Subscribers grouse at the service and complain that the *Of the rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual system is so lackadaisical about repairs that they frequently have to make them themselves. No less archaic is the company's pole policy. When poles blow down or rot away, line men whack off the diseased portion, resink the stub into the ground. Result is that subscribers sometimes have to stoop to get under the wires...