Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...model autos. They built a miniature automobile, not much larger than a milk bottle, to fit over one of their tiny, ¼-h.p. internal-combustion airplane engines, tied one end of a piece of wire to the car's inner weight centre, tied the other end to a pole, let the car run in a wide circle...
Whizzing around a pole (cable racing) is still the most popular form of miniature-auto racing, mainly because it can be managed on any gymnasium, floor or hard tennis court. But the spindizzies who gathered last week in Los Angeles' $3,500 Miniature Speedway were newfangled rail-racing enthusiasts, competing in the first miniature rail-racing championship of the U. S. In rail-racing, far more exciting to watch, cars usually race in threes (against time) around a banked wooden oval, one-sixteenth of a mile in circumference. They cling to the oval's steel rails by means...
...story out of Paris, where university students have been forbidden to stage any kind of demonstration against the German occupation. One demonstration which the Germans did not understand was put on by 1,000 students marching up the Champs Elysées behind leaders carrying two 14-foot bamboo poles. Every time the leaders raised the poles the students cried "Vive!" The French word for pole is gaule. Two poles is deux gaudes, or De Gaulle...
...early 1900s, Henry Clapp Sherman, now a professor at Columbia, discovered the value of minerals-iron, calcium, phosphorus. Then came the researches on vitamins, beginning with the discovery of a "vitamine" (B) by a Pole, Casimir Funk...
...Magnetic pole of the gold digger's globe is 5° 30'N, 87°W: a Pacific isle named Cocos, rainy and "snagged, like an old pirate's teeth." There in the last 80 years have gone hundreds of adventurers to ruin their lives, lose their own fortunes in search for three pirate hoards (worth perhaps $60,000,000) which legend has buried about its shores. Biggest find to date: one rusty pistol. So littered with gold diggers' picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin...