Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government edict. Embree gives the intricate design of that control, suggests its points of stress. Suye Mura, like thousands of Japanese farming villages, is largely sustained by work exchange and other forms of communal cooperation. Farmers cooperate with their neighbors in rice growing, financing the needy (a credit pool is often a form of lottery that continues for years), bridge building, house building, roof repairing, funeral arrangements, and frequent drinking parties celebrating the completion of farming jobs or such vital events as birth, marriage, or the sending of a conscripted son to the army. Strong is the incentive to cooperation...
...Stalin: "You remember, little Adolf had followed the White von Ribbit into a hole. . . . He cried and cried, till there was a big pool of water, and he got so tiny that he fell in with a splash...
...even screwier family in My Man Godfrey) manages to be out when his family is home, home when they are out. Connie quickly warbles her way into the butler's heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings to buy her a party dress and silver slippers so that she can go to the great ball. There unknown Connie captures the crowd by caroling a Strauss waltz. Her handsome, horsy young host (Robert Stack) canters over and, while cinemaddicts hold their breath, gives Deanna Durbin...
Twenty-five Varsity swimmers answered the call to the first official practice in the pool as Coach Hal Ulen brought his series of conditioning exercises to a close and started work for the 1939-40 swimming season...
Mentor Ulen hopes to get the jump on strong Princeton and Yale squads by this early start, Last year's Varsity swimmers didn't enter the pool until after the Yale football game...