Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool is as universal as support of the team. Through the compulsory requirement the University realizes the fundamental importance of swimming. General student interest is demonstrated by the growing popularity of House swimming, high points of which are the annual meets with Andover, Exeter, and the Yale College champions. Even individuals seek instruction from the coaches and varsity swimmers...
...fact that Harvard has the best pool in the East as well as one of the best teams adds extra weight to undergraduate desire for making swimming a major sport here. Such equipment will never be abandoned; it should be used to full advantage. It is fitting that Harvard take the lead in raising swimming to its just rank...
...Pools of Pounds. In addition to being England's No. 1 pastime from September to May, soccer in the past four years has created a new industry-one of the biggest in the country. Last year ?40,000,000 ($200,000,000) changed hands in British football (soccer) pools-a weekly win, lose or draw forecast of the big-league matches. Started just after the War and nurtured by Depression and the dole, football pools, aided by well-advertised slogans like "You can make a fortune for a penny," have grown each year until today it is reckoned that...
What alarmed Parliament were such statistics as these, widely circulated in the British press: From 1934 to 1937 the turnover from football pools rose from ?10,000,000 to ?40,000,000. Mathematical odds against the correct forecast (first prize) are estimated as high as 14,000,000-to-1. Still, there is always that lucky penny that won ?19,000, the sixpence that brought ?30,780. A pool promoter's net profit may run up to ?2,000,000 a season...
When a person wants to bet in a pool he writes the promoter for the week's selection. He usually has a choice of six or seven different combinations, may bet anything from a penny to a pound. There are three cardinal requisites for an "investor" (the word bettor is shunned): He or she must be over 21, must not "invest" with cash, must never visit the promoter's premises. To circumvent England's Betting & Lotteries Act, all transactions are on credit, cash is sent the following week. If an investor fails to follow up with cash...