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Word: poling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organized in the depths of one of Europe's severest winters on principles and by methods that can be described only as brutal. And stark hunger stares 70% of Poland's population in the face as their reserves of foodstuffs and tools are shipped to Germany. . . ." >"No Pole may leave his home between 7 :30 p. m. and 6 a. m. During these hours the Gestapo sweeps down without warning on the unfortunate people. . .. The population do not sleep and spend the night dressed because the time limit allowed was recently curtailed and those not ready must leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Martyrdom | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Steve Madey reached 13 feet in the pole vault, while Donahue took fourth place in the finals of the 60-yd. high hurdles. Tolmich won this event. Captain Shields of Yale placed second, and Dugger of Tufts took third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIKKOLAMEN PLACE WELL IN ANNUAL MILLROSE CONTESTS | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...addition, Junior timber-topper Don Donahue has been entered in the star-studded high hurdles field, and Steve Madey is in the pole vault. On past performances, both men have a chance to place, and the whole six-man delegation should gain valuable indoor experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six-Man Track Delegation to Vie for Millrose Laurels | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

Coach Jaakko Mikkola announced that Donahue would be entered in the hurdles at the Millrose meet in New York this Saturday. Steve Madey, winner of the pole vault at the Veterans of Foreign Wars competition, will also make the trip. A one mile relay team will be named later in the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Mikkola Men Compete In Knights of Columbus Meet | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...wrote a long volume of gibberish called Mythology in the 20th Century, which few Nazis could decipher and fewer non-Nazis wanted to. As the editor of the Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter he predicted that when Hitler came to power "Jewish bodies will hang from every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." Above all, he incessantly repeated that Bolsheviks were "Jewish criminals" and that the German path of conquest lay logically to the East, towards Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Birthdays | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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