Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Camp Wood, for white girls, has a big recreation & dining room, electrically-lighted cabins, tennis courts, ping-pong tables, riding horses, a lake for swimming and boating. At Camp Washita girls live in a dormitory, have a piano, phonograph, radio and cement swimming pool. Camp Bide-a-Wee "is a cool, green spot shaded by huge trees situated beside a clear creek" where "colored women live in screened-in cabins, possess a beautifully furnished main room for recreation and study and have tennis courts, swings and a croquet ground for sports...
...attracting attention is cotton. In Mississippi last month huge bolts of open-mesh cotton fabric were unrolled, like a mile-long rug, on the new road between Greenville and Scott, under the eyes of 400 engineers, farmers and Federal bureaucrats, including Manager Oscar Johnston of AAA's Cotton Pool. The cotton, fixed by tar. is laid between the clay and gravel base and the asphalt surfacing. It acts as a binder, prevents stretching and cracking. Extra cost of the binder is $750 per mile, which, experiments in other States show, should be returned later by decreased maintenance bills. Cotton...
...these 75, many of whom will be weeded out before the season advances to the stage of the really grueling, daily practices in the pool, six are lettermen. They are led by Captain Richard T. Fisher '36, one of the three Harvard men to take first places in the Yale meet last year...
Sixth shows a pool of blood, a pigeon whose head is Yod; many hands partly blotting out the name of the Lord, partly blotting out a phylactery. This recalls a legend that the Lord is embarrassed by a murder...
...latter is used to teach men how to swim since that is one of the requirements for a degree. The larger pool is believed to be the fastest in the country and was the scene of many records last spring when the N. C. A. A. meet was held there. The water in both pools is kept at a constant temperature of 72 degrees...