Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected that the swimming pool in the new gymnasium will be ready for flooding by February 17 and will be thoroughly conditioned for the National Collegiate Associate swimming meet to be held March 28 and 29 when more than 30 colleges, members of the Association, are expected to be in competition...
...Horace Edmund Avory, pale and ascetic under his huge wig, was unimpressed. Addressing all four defendants he gazed fixedly at Clarence Hatry, the man who once owned the largest yacht and some of the fastest horses in Britain, whose Mayfair house contained not only a roof-garden swimming pool but also a subcellar bar and taproom labeled "Ye Old Stanhope Arms-Free House...
Most remarkable fact in the Hatry Swindle: members of the London stock exchange found it such a terrific blow to British confidence in securities of every kind that they formed a pool of over $5,000,000 partially to reimburse Hatry victims. These, naturally, had no legal claim whatsoever against the exchange...
Waiting for their ships to be made ready, the 60 Soviet sailors seemed to have nothing to do but play pool, which they did exuberantly 18 hours at a time in the basement of St. Mary's House. Speaking no English, they preferred to eat at cafeterias where it is possible to order by merely pointing. A few of the braver ate in service restaurants, but limited themselves entirely to Hamanex (ham & eggs) an order internationally understood since...
Players who have done well at pool or straight billiards often take up three-cushion, find it the most satisfying because it is the hardest. Curly-haired, florid Johnny Layton was the best pocket billiard player in the world before he decided that knocking balls into pockets was dull compared to pure cueing. When he won his first championship he went home to Sedalia, Mo., where he had become proficient during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down...