Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Gandhi renewed his spiritual campaign against India's bitter communal feuding. At 7:35 on the morning of Jan. 2, clasping a long bamboo pole in his right hand and flanked by four companions, Gandhi set out on a walking tour of Bengal's Noakhali district. On his "last and greatest" experiment, the Mahatma said he would visit 26 Moslem villages, would seek to rekindle the lamp of "neigh-borliness" quenched in that area (and in much of India) by blood...
Geological, geographical, and astronomical research are the principal purposes of the trip. The expedition will live in tents and igloos in their base camp and will make a trip to the pole itself during their stay...
...Over the poles, the troposphere goes up 14 to 15 kilometers (9 miles) above sea level. Over the equator it goes higher: 17 kilometers (10½ miles). The higher the troposphere rises the colder it gets. So the coldest air temperatures (about -132° F.) are above the hot equator. High above the North Pole, it probably gets no colder than...
...present icecap, most geologists believe, is comparatively new. Millions of years ago, they think, Antarctica was warmer, even tropical. A seam of coal 180 miles from the South Pole proves that the continent was once covered with vigorous vegetation. There may be oilfields too, and mineral deposits, including portentous uranium...
Another mystery is the South Magnetic Pole, thought to be some 1,200 miles from the geographical South Pole. The expedition's scientists will try to locate it accurately. Another group will study the icecap itself, measuring the movement...