Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embassy officials hurriedly explained there would be no, recruiting, at least until the Senate-approved measure becomes law. A young Pole in London had an answer to that. He offered to serve in the "Senate Army," just in case the House of Representatives didn't want...
...could be brought home in front with the needed 548 delegates (a simple majority of the 1,094 total). For another thing, while it looked like a Dewey-Vandenberg horse race on form, one of the entries was probably not going to start running until about the three-quarters pole. But handicappers agreed, almost to a man, on the way the race would probably be run. The consensus...
...army officers figure that for every degree the temperature drops below zero, a soldier's effectiveness goes down about 2%. Near 50 below, all his energy is used just to stay alive. But if the Western Hemisphere ever has to defend itself against an attack launched over the Pole, Western man must learn (as his enemy will presumably have learned) how to survive in Arctic weather, and still have energy left to fight. How to acquire that skill is the problem before the Joint U.S.Canadian Cold Weather Testing Station at Churchill...
...Pole vaulter Bud Lockett was taken to the infirmary after he injured himself clearing 13 feet, and is now on crutches. Deprived of his three shots at 13 feet, 4 inches, he still finished in a triple tie for first, while Owen Torrey tied for fourth at 12 feet...
...Saltonstall of Exeter. The manufacturer of Thayer's Slippery Elm Lozenges, the designer of three America's Cup-winning yachts, and a British M.P. are all old Miltonians. On Admiral Byrd's first expedition an old Miltonian planted the school's colors at the South Pole...