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Word: poling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gene Harrigan and Pete Garland who top the bar in the neighborhood of six feet are close contenders for the first position in the high jump, while Pete Harwood, who has done 13 feet, is way out in front in the pole vault. The team seems to be potentially strongest in the weights where half a dozen husky contenders are all Varsity material...

Author: By Shane E. Riorden, | Title: Mikkola Trains Big Cinder Squad For Rough Winter Track Schedule | 12/6/1946 | See Source »

With a Yardling practice meet with Andover coming up this Saturday, Jaakko remarked that "This year we need more Freshmen, particularly pole vaulters," and he added that he wanted to get some javelin men in training for next spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Face Army, Yale, IC4A In Indoor Track | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

...what about striking against the Government? A big, stooped Pole slammed down one of Andy Harchar's beer glasses-"Who the hell's the govamint? It's us, ain't it? We're the govamint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fog in Bentleyville | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

What if the Army comes in? "Who's the Army?" said the Pole. "There's more miners than soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fog in Bentleyville | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Skum never saw a pencil until he was ten, but when he did finally get his hands on one he knew just what to do with it; he had practiced drawing with a ski pole in the snow. Drawing came naturally to Skum: he had a photographic memory of the vast white landscapes he moved through and of the runty reindeer he moved after. And Skum always had an uncanny feeling for the one thing most artists have to learn from other people's pictures-perspective. But until he got too old and fat to camp comfortably, Skum found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reindeer Man | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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