Word: poole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite a choppy, 20-yard pool and a determined opposition, the varsity swimming team scored an easy, 55-40 victory over Springfield College yesterday in the season's first meet. Sophomores Neville Hayes and Bob Corris paced the Crimson, breaking one national and two pool records between them...
Harvard won only six of the eleven events and finished first and second in only three races, but Coach Bill Brooks was pleased with the results. At least three of the losses were probably due to the 20-yard pool, a distance seldom encountered in collegiate swimming...
...BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these short stories, the author keeps a tight grip on his own creatures of exurbia: the proletariat of vice presidents, the charming, irrelevant aristocracy, and the winning eccentrics, who compose a kind of swimming-pool society...
...company-run country club for all employees (highest fee: $125 a year). By the time he is 40, the rising Du Pont executive may earn well over $25,000, enough to move to the farther-out suburbs, where the pond in the backyard is preferred to the swimming pool. To those at home base, in fact, Du Pont is more than a place of work; it is a way of life in the most thoroughgoing company town in the U.S. The Du Ponts own Wilmington's biggest bank, its only playhouse and its two daily newspapers -and what they...
...translated and published in the U.S. By his own lights, Genet is indeed a saint. But he is a watch-charm saint, a petty demon whose villainy is on so small a scale that its very earnestness is laughable. The crimes that this Narcissus drops like blossoms in the pool of his own image are no worse than sneak thievery and queer rolling...