Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's race, the men in the press box were ready to forgive Hagg all this puckery humor. In awed silence, they watched him take off his shoes and patter barefoot over the scorching concrete of the stadium to the broadcasting booth. There, impassive as a totem pole, he stood before a microphone, said hello to his countrymen back home...
...privately whether the M-3 might not be destined to serve as a "revolt gun," to be dropped by parachute to the rebellious people of conquered Europe when the time is ripe. Colonel Studler's gadget will never stir a gunsmith's soul, but to a despairing Pole. Czech or Dutchman it might look like a rare and lovely objet...
Time Conquers Time. There is an opposite pole to this stillness. It may be discerned behind "the strained time-ridden faces, distracted from distraction by distraction," of any great city, any "place of disaffection...
...sensation of the meet as he walked off with three titles tucked under his belt. He took the high jump with a 6 ft., 4 in. leap and the broad jump with a 23 ft., 10 in. effort, and finished a good day's work by triumphing in the pole vault at 14 feet...
...Pole vault--Tie between Bensley and Rockwell (A); third, Rogerson (H). Height...