Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deity, threw away what the Son of Heaven could not eat. When the Emperor departed next morning, the mountaineer, thrifty, went after his lost delicacy. It had been frostbitten during the night. As the morning sun warmed it, the jelly disintegrated. Water separated from it into a little pool leaving behind a light, glistening mass like delicate tissue-paper flowers. The mountaineer, who was a bit of a scientist, heated the residue in water, saw it resume its normal form, laid the foundations for the great agar-agar industry of Japan. The fundamental process has not changed since the mountaineer...
...problem last year by allowing the R. O. T. C. to drill in Memorial Hall. But that place, the scene of former Junior Proms, was deemed too sacred for marching feet. The various armories are not suitable because of their distance from the College, while the Big Tree Swimming Pool and the old cage are neither large enough nor suitable for drilling...
...Naval Science Department has been assured the unhindered use of the baseball cage for drilling in the fall, and a host of other places such as Grand Army Hall, or the various armories would be available for spring marching. The University even prepared the Big Tree swimming pool for this activity, but this the Naval Unit saw fit to refuse...
...afternoon, unless it is too wet or too hot to move, the tennis courts are crowded and the Plain dotted with enthusiastic golfers. Those "elephants" who have not yet mastered the dance march daily to Cullom, while the "walri" who cannot swim go to the gymnasium pool for hardboiled instruction. When a cadet has qualified in swimming he has the privilege of canoeing on the Hudson or swimming in Delafield Pond, a beautiful little artificial pool nestling in an arm of the rolling hills above the Plain. It the cadet is lazy he may take a red comforter, compose himself...
Among the 514 cases docketed this term, 140 deal with taxation, ten with criminal law, 16 with Prohibition, 26 with Indians, 25 with personal-injury damages. Famed business cases to be heard: 1) Standard Oil gasoline "cracking" patent pool; 2) Paramount-Famous-Lasky "bloc booking" of cinema films; 3) Chicago telephone rate case...