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Word: poole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three thousand miles away, the California racing fans saw a less exciting race but made some profit. Lawrin, so overwhelming a favorite in the field of three that there was a minus pool in the parimutuels for the first time in the history of California racing**, won as he pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Disappointment | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...agreements" to stabilize prices, according to the industrial engineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, is that 60% of the agreers are gentlemen, 30% just act like gentlemen and 10% neither are nor act like gentlemen. Result in the early years of the steel industry was that every price pool ended in price chaos. Then along came a gentleman who also carried a big stick-stern Judge Gary of U. S. Steel Corp. Since Big Steel at the turn of the Century had 65% of the total ingot-steel capacity, Judge Gary could easily knock into line any other company which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pittsburgh Minus | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...England, an automobile worker from Kansas City, a rubber worker from Akron-65 working girls all told. Their clothes did not come from Fifth Avenue nor their manners from a finishing school, but for seven weeks they will enjoy the luxury of Bryn Mawr's capitalistic dormitories, swimming pool, tennis courts and learning. They are students in the college's Summer School for Women Workers, which last week began its 18th year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Working Girls' School | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Ultimate aim of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's "realistic" foreign policy is a revival of the 1933 four-power agreement, cosily bedding together Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany, leaving Soviet Russia to sleep on the pool table. But nobody is ready to turn in with anyone else until the problems of the Spanish war are settled. So last week Prime Minister Chamberlain called the battered and bruised nine-nation subcommittee of the Committee on Non-intervention to consider the realities of a new British plan. Its provisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Feeble Palliative | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Angeles' swank Ambassador Hotel pool, Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, Diver Marjorie Gestring, other aquatic stars put on an exhibition to raise money for blonde, beauteous Georgia Coleman, onetime (1929-31) U. S. women's diving champion, who for the last six months has been in a Los Angeles hospital ill with paralysis. Two of Miss Coleman 's bathing suits were auctioned off, one to Swimmer Weissmuller for $20. Total amount raised: "more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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