Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bishopric of Manchester. That northern see, with its industrial pinch, led Dr. Temple politically to the Left of his colleague of Canterbury, into the Labor Party and on to the presidency of its Workers Educational Association. With the enthusiasm of a practical social reformer who enjoys playing pool with settlement house moppets, His Grace of York is a leading spirit in "Copec" (Christian Conference on Politics & Economics) but he has now left the Labor Party, feeling himself more useful out of active politics...
...John David Crummey, David Christian's son, who at 57 has been a Methodist Sunday School teacher for 41 years and has a son studying for the Methodist ministry. Mr. Crummey lives on his pear orchard, near San Jose, is installing an employes' playground with swimming pool and dance floor...
...minutes later the President of the U. S. in bathing suit entered the closed pool to "play polio" as Warm Springs poliomyelitis patients call their daily water exercises. In with him went his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, who had spent the night at the main building of the Foundation. By turns they sat on the pool brink, discussing their previous day's budget talk, by turns played in the warm water, snorting and burbling like two walruses...
...well-publicized authority on sleep, also had a report to make last week on the effect of posture on blood distribution. Dr. Laird thought that, although mankind was benefited by acquiring the upright position, there were some disadvantages. In erect man the blood tends to collect in the abdominal pool, which may cause a slight blood deficiency in the brain. Dr. Laird tested, for proficiency in mental arithmetic, six students with their heads a foot lower than their feet. In this position they were 14% more accurate, 7% faster than they were with their heads one foot higher than their...
...Neville, who originally went to the household as Jesse's brother's tutor, remained as his mother's fiance. Tutor Neville took the gun away, left mother & son alone. Few minutes later he heard a shot, found Jesse Livermore Jr. lying in a pool of blood. On the floor beside him his mother was clutching a rifle, sobbing: "I've shot my son. He dared me to." Taken to a hospital, where doctors found him too weak to stand the removal of a bullet which had sheared through one lung and lodged in his liver...