Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Otto Yulevich Shmidt is a bearded Soviet academician, mathematician and Polar explorer. At the age of 56 he is also a man of remarkable longevity...
Donaldson trained his eye for swindlers; he also became a relentless pursuer of facts & figures in fraud cases. Among those he helped to convict: the late Dr. Frederick E. Cook, the polar explorer, for mail fraud. The catch which gained Donaldson promotion was his tracking down of a long-wanted train robber...
...remains a university college, as long as the majority of advisers are more concerned with their own research, their own teaching, and their own academic futures than with the fate of their advisees. It will continue to take the College's raw material--and the split, the schizophrenia, the polar extremes inherent in that raw material--and turn it back on its own unequal resources for the important work of planning a Freshman year in college...
...polar calm of Hollywood's Ciro's, whose audiences are notoriously cool to anyone who isn't yet fashionable in Manhattan, Kay Thompson was packing them in at $3,000 a week. Dressed in one of her 25 sleek slack-suits, Comedienne Thompson stepped into the spotlight, looking like a caricature of the neurotic, world-weary woman of the '20s. Bouncing about behind her were the four young, mobile-faced Williams brothers, who served as a kind of combination corps de ballet and hot choir. Anything went: patter, pantomime or pratfalls, and Pauvre Suzette, a song...
...Scientists have long suspected the magnetic pole of shiftiness. Ever since Sir James Ross first located (or thought he located) it in 1832, the pole has been rediscovered periodically, usually in a new spot. As recently as last year crewmen of the Army's Hawaii-to-Egypt polar plane, Pacusan Dreamboat, found it at some distance from its old habitat on Boothia Peninsula...