Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rain fell inside three hours. All but half an inch of this amount fell inside two hours. Fifty thousand dollars damage was done to property and one serious accident caused by the cloudburst, when an oil storage tank was struck by lightning and a man burned in a pool of burning oil. Two flat-roofed frame buildings collapsed from the weight of water in the gutters. Telephone girls went to work in bathing suits...
Reviewing the organization and record of Harvard athletics, the committee strongly commends the policy of "athletics for all" and endorses the Athletic Committee's proposals for further squash courts and a large modern swimming pool...
...widely used. During the past ten years more than fifteen acres on Soldiers Field have been made available; a new track has been built, a large amount of new equipment has been furnished for oarsmen, the University has purchased the former Randolph Athletic Building and the Big Tree Swimming Pool, and is now operating these buildings for the use of the entire student body; a temporary Freshman Athletic Building has been constructed, and there have been many other minor additions to athletic equipment. Many of these developments, of course, have been made possible by the increased revenue of the Athletic...
...Story. Still waters run deep -a quiet pool contains, unseen by the casual observer, a whole society of strange and opposite creatures, thrown together by chance or nature, fiercely loving and hating. So Eamor, an English country house, where life in general seemed to move as calmly and placidly as a still day in August, proved the focus and battleground for a certain group of di- verse, opposed personalities, related by accidental ties of blood or fate. The secret, incessant clash of these personalities, now and then flaring out into active conflict as abrupt as the glitter of lightning, serves...
...with equal indifference and success and falling back on odd jobs as a waiter or laborer when broke. He was an easy spender and a rolling stone and his Wander-jahre brought him the knowledge of three things?that he had a certain gift as a smoking-car or pool-parlor raconteur, that he was attractive to women, and that, as he grew older, he wanted some more permanent success than his roving habits offered...