Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago rackets which put the Underworld in Rolls-Royces and furnished their coffins with $15,000 orchid spreads. But he had had a large hand in racketeering's perfection. Born in Brooklyn of an Italian family, he was a "good boy" until he was 17. Then, in a Greenpoint pool room, he knocked down a stranger, thought he had killed him. A cousin in Brooklyn's "Five Points" gang hid him away from the police. When the stranger recovered, young Al was already at work on small "jobs." In a Coney Island fight he was slashed across the left cheek...
When the entries for the seventh National Collegiate Swimming Association Meet, the finals of which will be in the new Harvard pool closed yesterday 20 colleges had sent word to Manager R.L. Hoguet '31 that they would compete...
...swimming pool, which will be flooded before the end of this week as soon as the debris of construction has been removed, will need to be refilled only two or three times each year, in the opinion of J. A. Carter Company, the plumbers in charge. The pool, 75 feet long, 40 feet wide, and U 1-2 and S 1-2 feet deep at the two ends, has a capacity of 225,000 gallons. It would require ten hours for the centrifugal pumps, which will be in action while the pool is being used, to circulate this amount...
...degrees. It next runs through two coagulant pots, of soda ash and alum. which prevent undue acidity. The great work of filtration is done by a tank containing 27 tons of graded Cape May, New Jersey sand, through which the water will seep. Before entering the pool it will be impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results can easily be tested by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition the floor of the tank will be periodically subjected to the suction of a large curry comb. connected...
...Nicholson, journalist-explorer, into the unmeasured depths of the Carlsbad Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains in lower New Mexico. Last week came reports of his expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest of milk-white crickets, curiously not blind from living in the dark...