Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Projects Agency, gets under way. McElroy did not specify which service would operate the weapons system once it was developed, but the split-up of a development project that was, in fact, a single problem seemed an odd way to get efficiency-unless McElroy could find a way to pool the best brains of the Army and Air Force for the project...
...Breaking the 880-yd. and 800-meter freestyle swimming records (TIME, Jan. 20) was so easy for Australia's Latvian Immigrant Jon Konrads, 15, that the tireless teen-ager barely paused for breath before splashing back into North Sydney's Olympic pool and churning past four more marks. He finished the 440-yd. grind in 4:25.9, which was a 400-meter record as well. He sprinted 220 yds. in 2:04.8, setting a new 200-meter mark in the process...
This season, a healthy Ilsa began a furious training regimen, got up at 5 a.m. every weekday, bicycled two miles from her home in Bankstown to a pool to swim up to 3½ miles. After school she swam another two miles. So much time in the pool's chlorinated water gave her blond hair a mermaidish green tint...
...World." Then Hanisch had a question: "Can this place also make pills?" Striding through the well-lighted, air-conditioned plant, with its white walls and precisely placed blue machines (white and blue are Stuart Co.'s colors), he found a more than satisfactory answer. With an elliptical swimming pool and 30,000 sq. ft. of gold-roofed, pagoda-like recreation shelter in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid to be finished in two months, Pillmaker Hanisch has a building that combines beauty, efficiency, and the atmosphere of a country club...
California is five-to-three Democratic, but pool-room Angelenos and the Gardena oddsmakers are betting on Knowland and Knight. The past has proven that in times of muddy principles, the big name always wins. Meanwhile, the amateurs have gone back to bedroom grumbling and the sort of self-indulgence that keeps America on the middle road to nowhere...