Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization of intra-mural lacrosse this year, Varsity practice will not start until later in the year than usual. With four letter men returning from last year, Gundlach, Lessig, England, and Captain Rogers, Coach Pool has a good nucleus for a successful team. Although most of last years team graduated in June, there are several promising men coming from the Jayvees and the Freshman teams of last year. The schedule has not been definitely arranged yet, but practice will start in the cage some time after Christmas...
When we came down to mail a letter in the middle of the morning there was a Maintenance Department man surveying the scene, notebook in hand, probably estimating how much he could charge to move the furniture back. By lunch time all that was left was the lemon pool which had rolled under the radiator...
...crudest practical-joker among U. S. tycoons) again faced a circle of investigating Senators who wanted to know why the chairman of a competing oil company later merged with Sinclair Consolidated, had received a 2½% cut in the $12,000,000 profits of the 1928-29 Sinclair stockmarket pool. Prairie Oil's William Samuel Fitzpatrick had not been a syndicate member and the pool's manager Arthur Cutten had been able to shed no light on the transaction (TIME, Nov. 20). Haggard from a recent illness, Harry Sinclair resignedly puffed a black stogy, warily eyed Inquisitor Pecora...
...without putting up I? but also the biggest stock and grain speculator that the Senators had yet beheld. Spare, white-haired, slightly deaf Arthur William Cutten sat with his hand cupped behind his ear throughout most of the long interrogation on the great Sinclair Consolidated Oil pool of 1928-29. Unsmiling he peered through his spectacles at Inquisitor Pecora whom he could not hear half the time and who could hear Mr. Cutten's muffled replies less often than that...
...William Samuel Fitzpatrick, chairman of Prairie Oil, then a Sinclair competitor but later merged, was paid $300,000 out of the pool's profits although he had no interest, Mr. Cutten could not explain. "All we know, then," remarked Inquisitor Pecora, exasperated, "is that it wasn't made at Christmas time, so it couldn't have been a Christmas gift...