Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity is to end the Bulldog's rule of the pool, it must first dispense with the government at West Point and at Annapolis in the next two weeks, These two squads plus Dartmouth are the toughest competition for the Crimson before Yale...
...Pooled Blood. Opening a full-sized parachute at this point is out of the question; it would probably be torn to shreds, and, even if successful, it would keep the pilot in the air too long. Dr. Haber suggests that the pilot should have air brakes, a small parachute, or some other means of limiting his falling speed. It may be dangerous, however, to use any attachment that prevents tumbling. The tumbling motion is unpleasant, but it keeps the pilot's blood from getting "pooled" in his head or feet by one-directional Gs. But he should not spin...
...ground so that it would not compete with other U.S. fields. To make them eat their words, Gulf plans to put its Ragusa No. 1 into production by March, even though the company would like to go slower, drill deeper in hopes of finding a bigger pool...
Brooks emphasized that one of the troubles of a freshman swimming coach is "to get the boy for a long enough workout. He can't spend all his time at the pool, and the time he does spend is not enough to do a sizable job of developing him into a great swimmer. All the boys have fine possibilities, but they can't give the time to become great swimmers...
...baseball's rough and ready era. There was the time when the Boston police found Maranville and Jim Thorpe high in a treetop, yowling like banshees as they played Tarzan. There was the hot night in St. Louis when the Rabbit dived fully clothed into a fountain pool (though he always denied that he came gurgling to the surface with a goldfish clenched in his teeth). There was the time when he was playing in Brooklyn and staged a fake killing, complete with gunshot, that was daffy enough even by Dodger standards. And there was the time when...