Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearwater Beach...
...last week. Bulldozers, steam shovels, and scores of work crews were clearing stones and brush from some 650 dense acres. Before the job is finished, the section known as Praia Pernambuco, a few minutes by ferry from Santos, will have an airfield, a country club, a polo field, a beach club, a fishing club, hotels, shops, and some 500 houses, all furnished with the latest gadgets. Sao Paulo industrial interests, which are putting up millions to construct this sportsman's dream, expect it to be one of the top resort centers in the hemisphere...
From 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock girls connected in practically any way with the University can splash around in the pool's 225,000 gallons of chlorinated water, whip out a bottle of Gaby, close their eyes and make believe they're back at that favorite beach or lake-all for four bits...
Most of the regular attendees are good swimmers, who think persons who lie on the beach and never go near the water are "pretty pathetic." Few of them realize that the Pool is built of ceramic tiling to prevent expansion over its exact 75 by 40 feet dimensions, slopes in depth from 8 1-2 to 11 1-2 feet, and is warmed to a Cape Coddish 73 degree...
They all know that though it bears little resemblance to a New Hampshire lake or Jones Beach, it's still a very nice place to play around in on a hot spring night while Junior frolics in dreamland and his pater dodges the academic flak...