Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three tournaments in indoor sports for Freshmen have been scheduled for the winter season in the Union. Pingpong, pool, and billiard matches will be played, with a silver trophy as the prize for the champion in each division. Entries for the contests close on December...
...about press reports of a bear-killing in his zoo. Experimenting with groups of animals in large open dens Director Heller had placed together a pair of black bears, a pair of grizzlies, a pair of polar bears and a pair of wolves. All were young. Frolicking in their pool one day, the polar bears playfully began ducking one of the black bears. They jumped upon it, held it under water, held it there so long that it died. The Associated Press reported that the polar bears had murdered their denmate, that the other animals had "snarled and howled, leaping...
...injustice to those who support educational institutions, the private patenting of scientific and medical discoveries has been criticized on another valid ground. Achievement in this line are almost invariably the result of years of study by many different researchers, working often far separated in locality and time. Scientists pool their knowledge, publishing freely the steps of their progress. The one among them, therefore, who supplies the culminating factor in a great discovery is luckier, but not necessarily more worthy of credit, than all the rest...
...Senate investigation last spring much adverse comment was caused when it was revealed that red-haired Michael ("Mike") Meehan, specialist in Radio, was also in the Radio pool. Last week the Exchange lessened the chances of a specialist profiting through his knowledge by ruling that no specialist may participate in a pool in his special stock, nor may the firm to which he belongs. By use of the phrase "directly or indirectly" the Exchange can also prevent evasion of the rule by specialists who might participate in pools through their wife, cousin, stenographer or a dummy corporation. Some...
Saturday mornings from 10 to 11.30 o'clock for the rest of the winter the swimming pool and various exercise facilities in the New Athletic Building will be reserved for the use of sons of faculty members, aged 6 to 16. Classes in swimming, boxing, wrestling and games will be given...