Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the Panama Canal to Hawaii and back to Portland, Ore.; traveled across the continent with the cheers of multitudes in his ears and the news of drought-slaking rains in his wake; relaxed as the country squire at Hyde Park; toured the Tennessee Valley; sunned himself in the pool at Warm Springs. And during 1934, he spoke 23 times over the radio, more than any previous President in any previous year. But in the same time his wife managed to make five more broadcasts than her husband...
...there's nothing to it," explained Fred Topel, manager of the establishment. Mr. Barr and Miss Brady remained clothed. Someone gave the policewoman a chair so that she could watch 20 minutes of ordinary calisthenics. After that "both men and women went into the pool entirely unclothed and swam about...
When you see Coach Harold Ulen's swimmers in action against Boston University in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool on Wednesday night you will be witnessing an addition to a record that any college coach point to with justifiable pride. For in this baby of Harvard sports, the Crimson has won 26 of its 31 meets and B. U. according to all predictions is bound to be victim No.27. Of the five defeats, four went to the credit of Yale, which annually reached the ultimate in piscatorial perfection. The lone legitimate trouncing was at the hands of West Point...
...year age you heard little else round the swimming pool but stories of the exploits of Edward E. (Esty) Stowell '34, who consistently broke his own record and came within a hair of breaking the world's mark for the back-stroke. When Coach Ulen wasn't talking about Stowell, he was marvelling at George C. Scott '34, who came up from a House team to astonish tire coach as a sprint star. In his Junior year, Scott was just another swimmer for Lowell House. In his Senior year he took both short distance events at the Eastern Intercollegiates...
...usual in a Thorne Smith story, the situation is extreme, the characters more so. An aged roue calls on his equally aged mistress, takes a turn in the garden and discovers the extraordinarily rejuvenating qualities of the swimming pool. His mistress follows suit; an all-night revel ensues, joined by the local fire brigade. Towards morning the old roue, now young and vigorously drunk, unfortunately suffers another immersion in the pool, and is rejuvenated to infancy before he can be rescued. But he still continues to have some of the appetites of a man of the world, calls mewlingly...