Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study for five years, a student need never leave the premises. He gets a private room at low rental; no Moscow hotel serves better food than his cut-rate cafeteria. He can warm his mind in the 1,200,000-book library, cool off in the massive swimming pool. His labyrinthine alma mater is a self-contained city, with 133 elevators and miles of columned marble corridors; its 45,000 rooms include 168 lecture halls and 1,700 first-rate laboratories. Geography students alone have 20 labs, featuring such (militarily) educational gadgets as special projectors for aerial photographs...
...well as the problem of schedules, the group will consider the probable changes in the role of House drama when the Loeb drama center opens, and the possibility of a "pool of equipment and ideas," Henning said...
...experience from which American foreign policy has yet to recover. It is also true, however, that the State Department and the Administration have had far too little confidence in the ability of the American people to accept international measures that require emotional maturity. "Foreign policy by policy by opinion pool," an invention of the fifties, ignores the tremendous power and prestige a President and his Administration possesses to lead public opinion into accepting sound policy...
...fellows work out their edginess with darts and volleyball, are committed to no formal schedule of meetings. They dress casually, work in private studies with a sweeping view of the Bay area and a pool of typists to unscramble their scribblings. When a scholar feels he has something worth discussing, he pins a note on the bulletin board, expounds to whoever shows up. The talk is seldom trivial. Botanist Anderson, the corn man, was grappling last week with his unique specialty: a complex new method for "seeing" evolution as it actually happens...
When the market collapsed in 1929, Morgan tried to stop the panic as it had managed to do before. It headed a pool that put up a reputed $240 million to support the market. But the move had little effect. While Morgan's interests were relatively unscathed by the crash, the Depression spelled the end of concentrated banking power. The New Deal launched a campaign against "the princes of privilege." J. P. Morgan II was hauled down to Washington to appear before a whole series of investigations. Control of U.S. finance passed from Wall Street to Washington. Regulatory bodies...