Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turn upon a stranger and say, as he once did: "Sir, I have never seen you before and have no desire to see you again. However, since you appear to wish to lose £100 I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India, and now is a great public...
...Pool. Merger-shouters predicting a combination of Johns-Manville Corp., Insulite Co. and U. S. Gypsum Co. were wrong last week. Instead, both Johns-Manville Corp. and U. S. Gypsum Co. entered into marketing and distributing pools with Insulite Co., remained competitors of each other. The Manville-Insulite agreement is that Johns-Manville Corp. will use and market Insulite's rigid wall board, insulated against heat (used for partitions, kennels, stage props, mirror backs, outhouses) west of the Alleghanies. The Gypsum-Insulite agreement is to merge their distributing resources in all parts of the world since gypsum, like Insulite...
With the circus as a business enterprise, with circuses as corporations, the average person is no more concerned than he is concerned with the old swimming pool as a source of waterpower...
...shocked last week to hear what happened on the vacation of Philip Eaton, chemistry instructor at St. Marks, smart Massachusetts boys' preparatory school. Teacher Eaton had installed himself in a flat in Halfmoon Street, Mayfair, London. There he was found one morning by his housemaid, sprawled in a pool of blood. About his head, face and hands were razor cuts, ghastly after twelve hours of bleeding. On his body were heavy bruises...
...week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male and female, proposed to swim to Dover-and back, said Fattest...