Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bare concrete pool on the campus of the University of Washington, 15 silver salmon swam happily last week, their fancies turned to thoughts of mating and spawning. They were historic fish-the first salmon to return from the sea to an artificial pool...
...expanding, this week announced that he was moving within "ten miles of the Iron Curtain." He will build a 300-room, ten-story hotel in Istanbul, which now has no hotel with more than 100 rooms. Like his other foreign hotels, the new Hilton will have a swimming pool, tennis courts, etc. The Turkish government is putting up $4,800,000(part of it under EGA guarantees) to build it; Hilton will provide the working capital and management for one-third of the profits...
ISIS is designed to assist these under-developed areas by providing communication among student organizations throughout the world via a pool of technical knowledge on student problems and their possible solutions in the ISIS Library at Harvard. For example, if a Burmese group has student health woes, they can address the ISIS library and be sent material on how this problem has been met by students elsewhere...
...serious attempts at suicide. Once he drank some photograph developing fluid and a bottle of hay-fever lotion. Another time he tried eating a bunch of deadly nightshade. He can still remember "the curious sensation of swimming through wool" after swallowing 20 aspirins and jumping into the school swimming pool...
Photographers had it even harder. U.S. and Canadian publications that wanted exclusive shots were told they would have to pool their pictures. At outdoor events, photographers were handled roughly by police; LIFE'S Leonard McCombe was bashed in the mouth by a Mountie...