Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swim, team we wish a fifty-yard pool, and an electrical bulwark like Yale's seems only right. After a decade of delay, it would also be nice if the HAA brought the gallery of team portraits up to date. (That 's what those empty wood frames at the end of the pool...
...there then. Once at his desk, Collins has to deal not only with today's Florida but with tomorrow's. He may have to attend a meeting of an agency that he sponsored, the Florida Development Credit Corp., to encourage the state's 234 banks to pool credit for new industries. Or he may hear, as he did recently, a report that a certain national corporate giant, deeply involved in atomic-energy development, is looking for a plant site in a town with a university atmosphere. That report sent Collins, an indefatigable salesman of his state boom...
Progressively thereafter, he ordered the city's nightclubs to close at 2 a.m., regulated the striptease trade to extinction, and ordered the swimming pool at the Cercle Sportif, Asia's leading parade ground for bikinis, to close through the dry season...
...Harvard. With hordes of National Scholars and other western wonders remaining in Cambridge throughout the holidays, the University would be obliged to provide them some sort of entertainment. President Pusey would have to throw a party in Widener, followed by a sleigh-ride through the Yard. The IAB pool would stand awash with hot-buttered rum, and Memorial Hall would become a Yule log. Arthur Darby Nock would stroll along Mass. Ave. in a red suit roaring boistrous laughter, while townies pelted him with snowballs. John Finley would be especially jolly, God blessing every Dunster man, and section-men would...
Marx, a fresh-air fiend as well as culture fan, likes to bask in the sun on winter days at the bottom of his swimming pool, which is drained in September. There he sits puffing six-inch cigars (Jack & Charlie's "21" Selection), dictating letters to his Audiograph or reading a dictionary and marking the words and phrases he wants to transfer to his vocabulary. These are later typed by a secretary in a series of black books that Marx carries everywhere, studies in idle moments. For an hour, three or four times a week, he dons sneakers, a grey...