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Word: poling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condition by tall, dark Coach Louis Weintraub, who toured Japan with Michigan's championship basketball team in 1929. He calls his squad the "Commando Class" and puts it through such daily musts as 20 chin-ups, 75 pushups, 30 dips on the parallel bars and a 20-ft. pole climb in less than ten seconds without using the legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Court Commandos | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Like the latter, the new battery has an electrolytic fluid (sulfuric acid) and is recharged by passing a current through the fluid to build up the potential of the positive pole. But the new battery is made of new materials that cut weight 20% and improve efficiency. It is made non-spilling and hence portable by an absorbent filling which soaks up the electrolytic fluid. The absorbed fluid still conducts current. Thus the battery works just as well when its container is cracked or shot away. The battery's plastic case does not corrode or absorb acid; this prevents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pocket-Size Power | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...foot of the pole, Lieut. General George S. Patton, who had been doing the yelling, kept his peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Man at Work | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...Sicily, Messerschmitts circled a nearby hill, but Technical Sergeant Richard Redding, stringing wire atop a telephone pole and a perfect target, worked on. Someone yelled up from below: "What are you doing up that pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Man at Work | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...once ridiculous, pitiful and a national hero. As he shows up in his splendid new uniform, flashbulbed, bewildered, happy, homely, still unaware of what is in store for him, he receives the brass-band salute aptly paraphrased as "AND the MONkey wrapped his TAIL around the FLAG POLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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