Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rapidan, Va., summer camp President Hoover enjoyed the sight of 200 goldfish sporting in a pool...
...Duke Poao Kahana-moku of Hawaii, who has been on every U. S. Olympic swimming team since 1912, arrived by airplane for the final trials. Two men qualified in each of the 100-metre free style heats. In his heat Kahanamoku finished third, pulled himself wearily out of the pool, shook the water out of ears, looked gloomily at his muscular legs as if dissatisfied with the black sunburn which he has spent 42 pleasant years acquiring. Said he about his legs: "They were O. K. for 75 metres-after that it was just too bad." Not greatly surprised...
Some 150 schoolteachers, touring the ranch of Publisher William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon, Calif., crashed through a temporary flooring into an empty, unfinished concrete swimming pool. Fifteen had to be taken in ambulances 60 mi. to San Luis Obispo...
...established a school, named it Fermata. In 1926 Fermata School was taken over by F. A. M. Tabor, owner of Aiken Preparatory School for boys. Principal Tabor moved the school to its present site at Whiskey Road & Gin Lane. He expanded the plant with tennis courts, gymnasium, outdoor swimming pool. A Cambridge man, brother-in-law of Sir John Broderick, onetime commercial counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington, Principal Tabor invested Fermata with a strongly British atmosphere...
...friends & kin for $5,000,000 last fortnight (TIME, July 4). Fox Film Corp, last week sued to recover possibly $10,000,000 from Filman Fox, Jack G. Leo, a former vice president, and partners in M. J. ("Mike") Meehan's brokerage house, which handled many a Fox pool. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Aaron Fox, came forward too, with a $250,000 suit in behalf of her children...