Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the house, let them gape at the wine cellar in the basement, the billiard room in the attic, the sweeping outlook across meadowlands to Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom. The press inspectors rode up and down in the self-operating house elevator, stared speculatively at the outdoor swimming pool and tennis court, strolled through the ivory-tinted living room, the pinkish dining room, the bedroom suites...
...Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote...
...Life Insurance Co. director, president of the Magma Arizona R. R., Wartime head of the Red Cross mission to Russia, gave another $1,000,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter's greatest benefactor, he is an alumnus (1890), a trustee, has previously given his school a gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis & squash courts, baseball cage, science building, administration building (total value: over $1,000,000). Other recipients of Thompson benefactions: Columbia University, Clarke School for the Deaf, Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research...
...Blankenburg, Hollywood athletic club swimmer: The national 220-yard A. A. U. breaststroke championship in Chicago. While the crowd cheered Blankenburg, Johnny Rea, New York athletic club swimmer, beaten in the race, sank with cramps in the middle of the pool, came up, cried for help unheard, sank again. A spectator in dinner clothes, Lawrence Barr, jumped into the water, pulled...
...When he arrives at his office at 9:30 the architects are waiting for him with plans for the new botanical greenhouses ... an enlarged swimming pool ... a new set of roads and walks on the South Campus. All these projects will cost more than previously estimated, but surely in view of their obvious desirability the president can find the money...