Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaska in winter and spring, everybody talks about the weather and nearly everybody does something about it. Midstream in the ice-locked Tanana River at Nenana, a Government railroad junction, some 60 mi. southwest of Fairbanks, a 25-ft. pole stands upright, frozen fast. "Nenana Ice Pool'' reads a sign that it holds aloft. From the pole a wire runs ashore to the trigger of a time clock. During the early spring, Alaskans pay $1 for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute that the ice will move far enough down the Tanana to take...
When they get back to their Hollywood villa, complete with swimming pool and swans in the duck pond, Maine learns that in her next picture his wife will play opposite Niles's newest male star and that his own halcyon days in Hollywood are over...
...Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, 13-time world's "pocket billiard" (pool) champion : his 14th championship, after three years of retirement ; by beating nervous onetime champion (1934) Andrew Ponzi 125-to-107 in the final playoff of a four-way tie after a 66-game round robin; in Manhattan...
...hundred, and it is significant to note that none of the great swimmers now on the team had proved themselves "great" before they came to Harvard. Student and graduate interest in the sport have also shown strength, culminating in the demonstration of approval that shook the rafters of the pool on the occasion of the recent triumph over Yale...
...mother or Boy Scout leader taught him about such minor surgery. Medical schools pay little attention to the subject, medical journals less, medical conventions practically none at all. This gap in a doctor's education made the president of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool of Manhattan, complain recently. Partly because of Dr. Pool's complaint, mainly because he has a fine, two-fingered feel for medical necessities, Editor Thurston Scott Welton of the American Journal of Surgery last week produced a 416-page issue chock-full with 87 articles about the minor surgery which...