Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activity centers around the Indoor Athletic Building which was constructed at a cost of $1,200,000 and houses two swimming pools, three basketball floors which may be converted into tennis courts, boxing, wrestling, fencing rooms as well as locker accommodations for over 2,500 people. The pools are 75 feet by 40 with a depth ranging from 7 to 11 feet and a smaller practice pool 40 by 25 with a depth of from four to five feet...
...underlying mechanism. After radioactivity was discovered, Joly of England and others hit on the concept of thermal pulsation: radioactivity in the solid, or nearly solid, sub-crust of Earth causes heat to be stored there until the sub-crust melts. The continental masses sink deeper into this dense, viscous pool, which in turn moves sideways, bulging and rifting ocean floors, allowing heat to escape. Then the cycle begins again. Wegener of Germany proposed that two great continents, Gondwanaland in the Southern Hemisphere and Eurasia in the Northern, cracked and sundered, slid like cakes of ice over the hot sub-crustal...
Died. Edward Laurence Doheny, 79, Los Angeles oil tycoon; after a three-year illness; in Los Angeles. A mule-driver at 16, he looked for gold for 20 years, found little, switched to oil. tapped the Los Angeles field and another great pool near Tampico in Mexico, built up a $155,000,000 petroleum empire. He was indicted for bribing Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall with $100,000 to secure the Elk Hills oil lease from the Government. was acquitted in 1930 when he convinced a Washington jury that the $100,000 in a "little black...
...Tokyo's Meiji Shrine Pool, under the eyes of Princess Takamatsu, Princes Takamatsu and Sumi, Japanese Swimmer Hiroshi Negami finished an 800-metre free-style race in 10:02.4, a world's record, while his team was beating a touring team of five U. S. champions...
...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...