Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Louis XIV added it to the less innocent pleasures of his court, the pastime of billiards has had many offspring. Most impolite child is pool, which well-meaning persons have tried to dignify by calling it pocket billiards, publicizing it as a family game, rigging up modernistic equipment. Fortnight ago, when the world's championship opened on the Roof Garden of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, the players maneuvered stiffly in dinner jackets before a sparkling audience on tiers of blue & gold seats, longed vainly for spittoons and overhead counters. A preopening shot was more reminiscent...
...sure way has the President of the U. S. of knowing when winter is at hand. Last week Franklin Roosevelt knew it. His white tie and tails were laid out for him one evening when he was wheeled back from his evening swim in the White House pool. Down he went to his first official entertainment of the season. The Cabinet and their wives with a sprinkling of tycoons had the pleasure of eating the first State dinner cooked in the new White House kitchen...
...home town of Gloversville, N. Y. has been showered with benefactions, including a medical center and $200,000 swimming pool...
...attributes the star of his adventurous career to an overwhelming desire to visit distant lands and to find unusual subjects for narrative stories. He believes in the extraordinary in travel and has numbered among his stunts in far-off places everything from swimming at midnight in the sacred pool of the Taj Mahal to crossing the Alps by elephant in the footsteps of Hannibal. "While on my travels I live in the time of 5 B.C., the modern world then means little to me," he stated...
...Varsity swimming team opened its season Saturday night with an overwhelming 47-15 victory over the Alumni in a meet held in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. The meet was marked by the lowering of the Harvard 220-yard free style record, and the pool record in the 200-yard relay...