Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas entered the final pool with the other five top sabre fencers to compile a 1-4 record, beating Eliot Mills of C.C.N.Y. When he lost to the champion, Martin Wertlieb 5 to 4 he was the closest man to beating Wertleib in the final pool...
...HAVEN, March 10--If there is any consolation for the Crimson swimming team in the meet at the Payne Whitney Pool here this afternoon, it is the knowledge that as perhaps the second greatest swimming team ever in the East, it pushed the greatest team, Yale, to record performances for its 142nd consecutive victory...
...budgeteer $35 a week for three weeks for payments on his $2,000 debt. He then discovered that $80 of the $105 had been diverted to the budgeteer, only $25 to creditors. There are other sharp practices. The Federal Grand Jury in Chicago last year indicted a debt-pool outfit which assessed customers a $75 "survey charge," then sent them next door to a loan company to borrow the $75. Another Chicago pooler would collect his fee, make a few payments, then recommend that his client go into bankruptcy, steering him to a fee-splitting lawyer. In Seattle a truck...
...Less than 24 hours after she swam a world's record (5:06.7) 440-yd. free-style race at Sydney, Australia's Lorraine Crapp, 17, covered the distance once more, lowered the mark to 5:05.9. In the same pool another Australian youngster, Garry Chapman, 17, won the 220-yd. freestyle with a world record...
EXECUTIVE RESERVE will be set up to help run the Government in case of war. President Eisenhower has signed an order permitting the Office of Defense Mobilization to recruit a pool of 3,000 to 4,000 top men in communications, transportation, labor, etc., give them peacetime training for wartime duties...