Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys and 48 girls were comfortably housed at the huge Wardman Park Hotel where they splashed about in the swimming pool and gazed at big league ball players in the lobby. The first day they took, at George Washington University, an examination in history, geography, science and civics. The examinations were in the form of printed statements which the examinees marked true or false. The second, third and fourth days, the 48 boys and 48 girls saw eight short cinemas, made by Fox, dealing with geography, science (development of glaciers, life of a frog), history and civics (immigrant learning about...
...only $5,000,000 (TiME, Oct. 27). The balance of the damages is for the loss claimed to have been caused when the directors ordered the company to buy 214,000 shares of its own stock at an allegedly excessive price. Some of this stock was bought from a pool operated by the directors. Since then each director, with the exception of King Camp Gillette who is said to have made $1,000,000 in the deal, has returned his profits to the company...
...Vander Pool, three-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. M. P. Allen: his 14th consecutive race, the Rialto Purse, at Empire City...
...keep awake on the flight? No. Post touches neither coffee nor tobacco. Doesn't he drink Choctaw beer in Oklahoma? He might drink more if they made it better. Did they sense the guidance and protection of some superior being? Here one of the reporters suggested that they all pool their wits and try to suggest one significant question. The plan was not a great success...
...above the Falls. Fascinated tourists watched until a patrolman enticed the dog to shore, tethered him away from danger. The dog broke the rope, jumped into the cool river. The rapids caught him, carried him over the edge. He fell 165 ft., happened to land in a deep, quiet pool. One John Cavanaugh, candy concessionaire, leaped across the shore rocks, got the amazed dog to safety...