Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in the winter of 1939 - Mrs. Kister cannot remember the date exactly, but it had already snowed - a Pole took a pushcart loaded with unbanned Roy books out on the streets of Warsaw to see if the Germans would permit them to be sold. They were sold. At the end of the eight months that Mrs. Kister and her daughter were in occupied Warsaw, 200 pushcart book peddlers, most of them women, sold Roy books on the streets of Warsaw. Bestsellers: history, dictionaries...
...Stokowski patched up his squabble with the musicians and music lovers of Mexico City (TIME, June 5) than the National Broadcasting Company announced last week that it had fired him from his job as part-time conductor of the NBC Symphony. Behind the blow that knocked British-born, Irish-Pole Stokowski over Radio City's ropes was the fine Italian fist of his onetime pal, spry, bantamweight Arturo Toscanini, 77. The blow was the culmination of a friendship that has gone sour. Few maestros have held each other in such avowed mutual respect as did Toscanini and Stokowski...
...lift from home. Three members of the Polish Underground brought word to London that the Polish people wanted General Sosnkowski stripped of his political power. Forthwith the Council, already astir with proposals to do just that, voted to let the General keep his military command, appoint a civilian Pole as successor to the Presidency...
...refugee without an adequate laboratory, Ehrenhaft has again challenged a basic concept. When an electric current passes through acidified water between iron poles, the current decomposes the water and oxygen is formed at the positive pole. It is Ehrenhaft's claim that when the two poles of a horseshoe magnet are substituted for the current, oxygen is present in the gas that rises from the north magnetic pole. Therefore, he reasoned, the water is decomposed and there must be a flow of magnetic current...
...gases from Ehrenhaft's tests were analyzed by Brooklyn's authoritative Foster D. Snell, Inc. Results: about i% of oxygen, slightly more at the north magnetic pole, slightly less at the south, none at all if the iron was not magnetized. This analysis seemed to bear out Ehrenhaft's conclusions...