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Word: poling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pravda, official Communist Party organ, published a presumably meaningful story the same day: a New York Pole (D. A. Penzik) had suggested formation of a Polish National Committee of Liberation, composed of Socialists, Peasant Party members, the Communist Union of Polish Patriots in Moscow and democratic Polish groups in the U.S. and elsewhere. Mikolajczyk is a Peasant Party leader; Kwapinski a Socialist. Moral: according to the Russians all the Poles have to do to win recognition is to throw out the more violently anti-Soviet members of their Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pretty Kettle | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

When the gas coming from each end of the magnet was analyzed, that from the north pole was found to contain the most oxygen. Professor Ehrenhaft thinks that oxygen "bears a magnetic charge" like the north pole and was therefore repelled. He calls such charged particles "magnetic ions," compares them to electric ions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetism in Harness? | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...magnet's north pole, he thought, at the same time attracted other magnetic ions having a south charge and the south pole attracted ions with a north charge. The Professor thought that this conclusion was bolstered by a strange finding: when he left a permanent magnet overnight in the weak acid, it lost about 10% of its power (permanent magnets normally lose strength very slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetism in Harness? | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Rise & Fall. More than once in the next 300 years, the Poles marched as far as Kiev; more than once men from the East, notably the Tatars, swept into Poland. Casimir the Great was the first Pole to encompass a large block of non-Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His great-niece, Jadwiga, married Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. The union of the two kingdoms prospered for almost exactly 300 years; the tide did not turn until 1667 (see map). Said Ivan III of Muscovy, when Poland's expansion was in full flower: between Russians and Poles, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anatomy of a Feud | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Groucho Marx let a "beautiful young lady" out of his sedan in Los Angeles and drove into a telephone pole. Treated at a hospital for bruises and a possible rib fracture, he explained: "I was looking at her in the rearview mirror, or rolling up the windows, or something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 27, 1943 | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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