Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competitors also gripe because seldom, if ever, does Kiphuth bother to take along all his top performers to a sold-out away meet. Yale now holds most of the national records for 50-yard pools and (by picking on insignificant small-school opponents) most of the 40-yard pool records. Word among swimming schools is that the only way to get the Elis to visit at full strength would be to build a pool with no previous records--say, an egg-shaped one, thirty-seven yards long...
...Rich ON a lonely stretch of sandy, salt-encrusted coastline ranging from Oman to Iran, in lands so parched that clear drinking water is a luxury, the greatest treasure hunt of modern times goes on. Bordering the Persian Gulf, sometimes thousands of feet below the surface, lies the greatest pool of oil in the world. So far, 50 billion barrels of oil reserves, worth at least $100 billion, have been found-and this is only the beginning...
When summer comes, the Jacksons turn on the air conditioning and seal themselves in their house, with occasional trips to the immense swimming pool at the nearby Hubara Club. "We go to Kuwait once a week," Mrs. Jackson says. "There's a store called Jolly Brothers where we can get Campbell's soup, American coffee, peanut butter, jelly and saltine crackers...
...died before this project could be carried out, at 75, of a heart attack, while swimming in a pool on his country estate. The last verse he wrote was an encore for Ko-Ko's song about those people who "never would be missed...
...cartoons, by Gifford, Charles Robinson, and Sadri Khan, are mediocre at best. As for the reprints, none of them is even worth printing. In fact, one full page cartoon, which shows a man learning to swim in an empty pool, is undoubtedly the worst piece in the issue. The Poem Back Bay runs a close second...