Word: poling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Times, which had had its share of calls, headlined: "Children: Santa Has NOT Been Shot." Penitent NBC prefaced its next day's News of the World with an interview, over a "special super-radio circuit," between Commentator Morgan Beatty in Houston and Santa Claus at the North Pole. Said Santa, reassuringly: "John L. Lewis just missed...
Your Article on Marshal Rokossovsky, who has taken over the Polish Army "as a Pole" [TiME, Nov. 21], reminds me of the story about the Polish peasant woman whose son has just rushed home with the good news that their farm is no longer in Poland but is now a part of Russia. "Thank Heaven," said the old lady, "I don't think I could have lived through another Polish winter...
...magnetism. But Dr. Martin A. Pomerantz of the Bartol Foundation had long doubted the sun's magnetic field. Last summer he set out to disprove the theory by the apparently far-fetched method of catching cosmic rays with sounding balloons near the earth's north magnetic pole...
...Pomerantz figured that near the north magnetic pole in northeastern Canada the earth's magnetic field is so feeble that even the most sluggish rays should make the grade. He also reasoned that if he could find rays so feeble that they could not theoretically get through the supposed magnetic field of the sun, he would have proved that such a field does not exist...
...hard for them. In addition to other troubles, she had lost her seventh veil while trying to hook it, momentarily revealing an ample midsection and skintight, flesh-colored panties. Said she: "Dali doesn't know the opera. It should be all light, not in darkness like the North Pole. I could show no expression as I should, and I have never had to do such acrobatics before...