Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful Andover swimming team upset a previously undefeated Yardling squad, 43 to 32, in the winners' pool. Only bright spot for the Crimson came after Captain Dave Hawkins' record-breaking swim in the 150 yard medley free style, when his 1:36.6 time topped both varsity (1:38.7 sec.) and freshman (1:43.3 sec.) records...
...World Bank (a loan pool of 54 nations, started at Bretton Woods, N.H. in 1944) said that the money would go into 27 construction and development programs in electric power, coal mining, extraction and processing of nonferrous metals, iron and steel, some manufacturing industries, forestry and transportation. Most projects are to be completed by 1956, and are expected to boost Yugoslav industrial output by at least 30%. Examples: production capacity for iron ore should go up by 900,000 tons, pig iron by 260,000 tons, steel ingots by 275,000 tons, finished steel products by 195,000 tons. Most...
...week each, the girls were on daily call to sing everything from hillbilly tunes to a soporific midnight show called Moon River. Then one day Bandleader Tony Pastor came through Cincinnati on the lookout for a new singer. The Clooney Sisters, swimming in a local pool when the summons came, rushed out and sang an audition with hair plastered down around their faces, but their voices landed them...
...Common Pool. Huxley moves from man's tree-borne forefathers, acquiring intellect, to full-fledged men, who began to teach each other what was learned by experience. This ability proved to be the evolutionary jackpot...
...critical point in the evolution of man . . . " says Huxley, " was when he . . . could organize his experience in a common pool. It was this which made human life different ... Animal types have limited possibilities, and sooner or later exhaust them. Man has an unlimited field of possibilities ... He has developed a new method of evolution: the transmission of organized experience ... which supplements and largely overrides the automatic process of natural selection ..." As soon as man acquired the ability to accumulate and transmit knowledge, he bested all his rivals and possible rivals on earth...