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Word: poling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wane, flare up again with a mysteriously pulsating energy. Says one amateur observer: "Once you've watched a variable star in action, you're never the same again. It's like having your finger on the pulse of the universe." Variable stars (which include the Pole Star) pulsate, and nobody knows why or how, except that their behavior probably involves enormous transformations of matter into energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Amateur Stargazers | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...Honors in the 600 fell to Max Pincus who came through with time of one minute 18.5 seconds; he was followed by Herby Blatt and Henry Mason. Second win of the day for the Freshmen was Francis Shaw's 11' 3" pole vault; although by no means startling the jump was still very good for the practice and experience...

Author: By Colin F. N. irving, | Title: Upperclassmen Win Track Contest, Taking Five Starts | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...usual run of the mill intramural meets medals and prizes were given out last week to the following men for their showing: Jack and Bill Fisher and Hampton in the hammer, Capole and Schneider in the high jump, Garland and Chilcott in the discus, Shaw and Burrowes in the pole vault, Bingham, Wheeler and Clark in the 300, MacCoubrey and Young in the 100, Blatt in the 600, and Andrews and Murch in the distance...

Author: By Colin F. N. irving, | Title: Upperclassmen Win Track Contest, Taking Five Starts | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...Mikkola, track mentor, will have to size up his charges in toto will be the intramural meet scheduled for Thursday. For the first time in the long record of intramural meets, prises will be awarded in four field and four running events. The field events will be high jump, pole vault, hammer, and discus; the running events the 100, 300, 600 yard, and a distance race between two of the Charles River bridges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Will Compete Officially In First Intramural Meet Thursday | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Coverage. In Tulsa, a bolt of lightning struck near the Walter Grubb house, gave Mrs. Grubb a shock; a mile to the west, a bolt of lightning struck a telephone pole, narrowly missed Son Lloyd Grubb; seven miles from Tulsa, a bolt of lightning struck near Father Walter Grubb, gave him a shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 20, 1942 | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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