Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being carried by car from New York, where it had arrived home from Europe with daily workouts in the ship's swimming pool between men's and women's hours. As the car was heaving in sight of Memorial Hall, it suddenly pitched into the ditch, leaving the shell to continue along the road for some ten or fifteen feet. At that it only suffered from minor scratches and bruises, but fate had yet more in store...
...Colgate-Hoyt Pool, one of the oldest swimming plants, was completely de-roofed by a sudden mid-afternoon blast, but five freshmen present for physical examinations were unharmed...
...from Harvard until you know how to swim, and so you will be taught will nilly if you are among the five per cent who don't know how to master the brine when you get here. If you are aquatically minded, swimming in the gala Indoor Athletic Building pool will lure you sooner or later, and the Crimson swimming teams, under Coach Hall Ulen, are a pride of Harvard...
...Paris, Joseph Pacreau, 34, was visiting the polar bears in the Vincennes Zoo. Because there are no bars in the Zoo, only way to see the polar bears is to peer into their pool from a steep rock bank high enough so no bear can stand on its hind legs and claw the customers. While Joseph Pacreau peered, one bear heaved itself awkwardly on to the back of another bear, got hold of Joseph Pacreau's arm, hung on till a keeper arrived and rapped it smartly on the nose...
...week, Too Tough, crazed by the sun baking her steel-barred cage, ripped off its wooden roof, lumbered out. When a pedestrian saw her waddle wild-eyed into a public street, the police gave the alarm, closed the park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear holed up in a cool corner. Driven out by a machine-gun barrage, Too Tough reared up to her full eight feet, lunged at Zoo Superintendent Arnold J. Schaumann, stiffened as his rifle...