Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astoria's brand new municipal pool, the aquatic tryouts turned out to be even more preposterously mismanaged than the track meet across Hell Gate at Randalls Island. Olympic divers, accustomed to having their entrance into the water greeted by large crowds with respectful applause, indignantly discovered that, in order to reach the springboard for practice, they had to stand behind long queues of merry Long Island City sports who were delighted because the opening of the new 20? pool coincided with the heat wave. Once reached, the springboard turned out to be an ordinary plank, instead of the special...
...muscles originating on the pelvis. Circulation is speeded. The heart, more nearly on a level with all parts of the body, adjusts easily to the extra energy demands. Muscular contractions demand an increased supply of oxygen. The depth and rate of respiration are accelerated. Continued exercise in the pool makes for depth and fine breathing adjustments. Assimilation and elimination are taking place faster than usual. Weakness of abdominal and trunk muscles of students is due to a great extent to habitually poor sitting positions...
Since President Roosevelt popularized swimming pools for victims of infantile paralysis, and hydrotherapy has become a major activity of physiotherapists, special occupational ailments have become prevalent among those technicians. They must accompany patients in warm pools. Warm water makes them lose a pound of sweat during a two-to-three hour treatment. It also lowers their blood pressure. Chlorine, essential to sterilize the pools in which the sick bathe, causes a skin irritation which is almost impossible to cure unless the physiotherapist keeps, out of the water entirely. If the patient exercises alone in a small raised pool, the attendant...
...pool inside the big, concrete-barred elephant paddock he splashed and whooshed for two hours one hot morning last week, part of the time with one of the cows. Then Keeper Ed Brown decided to part them, take Wally to a small separate paddock. He asked Keeper Rudolph Bjork to hold back the cows...
...Surprisingly, the watermen had little or nothing to say about the growing practice of sterilizing reservoirs and swimming pools with silver. That ions (atomic fragments) of silver, copper and some other metals in extremely minute traces have a powerful germicidal effect was discovered in 1893. Only a few millionths of a gram per litre of water will kill germs. The silver which dissolves from a plate simply immersed in the water is enough. Thus treated is the water supply of Heidelberg, and there are many other installations in Germany, England, Switzerland. Two years ago the swimming pool of the Congressional...