Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four days of splashing up & down the 50-meter pool at Detroit's River Rouge Park last week the best girl swimmers and divers in the U. S. accomplished the remarkable feat of setting no new U. S. record. It was the first time on record that a national Amateur Athletic Union championship meet had failed to produce at least one. This indication that swimming & diving technique is approaching perfection gave more importance to the nine championships decided. Individual titles...
Almost exactly abreast as they spun into the turn after the first length of the pool, Olive McKean and Lenore Kight started back through the ruffled water for the final dash. As if a private current favored her, Miss McKean drew smoothly ahead in the last 25 meters, touched the wall a full three yards ahead. Later in the same afternoon, swimming with a precise cadence of 51 strokes per lap for 32 laps, Miss Kight consoled herself by winning the mile swim...
...distances on his way. At 19, he now holds seven world and eleven U. S. records. Son of an Italian office clerk, Swimmer Medica likes spaghetti, milk, beer. Excessively lazy, he walks as little as possible on his way to and from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called upon to swim. Like Miss McKean, he learned young, in Seattle's Green Lake. Last week, with Al Vande Weghe, 17-year-old Paterson, N. J. backstroke star, and Art Highland of Northwestern University, he was en route to Tokyo to enter the Japanese National Championships this month against...
...doubters began looking around for a successor. Most of them favored Brother Bolden, onetime president of Los Angeles' Realty Owners Association. But they reckoned without Brother Edward. He emerged from the colony swimming pool one morning, announced that he had seen a vision. The ghost of Brother Isaiah had appeared, said he was still running the colony, would deliver his orders through Brother Edward. Twenty-six "Immortals" bowed to the revelation. Four teen skeptics suspended judgment while a committee visited the grave to look for signs of an upheaval, found the long furrows undisturbed...
...climate changed. Rivers shrank to rills, lakes to ponds, ponds to puddles. Too cumbersome to migrate, herds of sauropods huddled in the dwindling water, died like flies. A dozen or more last survivors perished in one small pool. Clay and sandstone covered the bones. In the course of ages the pool bottom became a hilltop in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. A rancher stumbled on the spot, saw some outcroppings, informed Dr. Barnum Brown, curator of fossil reptiles at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History...