Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly dubious. For the tragedy of Europe, today as in 1914, is that there is no man with a sufficiently long view to appreciate that the only path to peace lies in collective action, that in crises such as the present, nations must submerge their selfish interests and pool their resources, or else run the risk of being submerged individually by another wave of nationalism and militarism that in the past has had but one result...
...first game was played on April 2 with Mt. Washington at Baltimore, Maryland, when Coach Robert Pool's men took a 13-4 defeat in a match played in the evening under floodlights...
Shattering two world records in the 440-yard and 1500-meter free style events and setting a N.C.A.A. mark in the 220, Jack Medica of the University of Washington featured the twelfth annual championships of the National Collegiate Athletic Association held on March 29 and 30 at the Harvard pool...
...Pittsburgh, the New York Athletic Club and the Chicago Athletic Club played the roughest water polo game on record. Pugilist Joe Choynsky, who once fought James J. Corbett on a barge in San Francisco Bay. was the Chicago coach. After four men had been carried out of the pool unconscious, Pugilist Choynsky hit Swimmer Ruddy on the jaw. Swimmer Ruddy then hit Choynsky in the eye. A riot started. Among the spectators were Mrs. Ruddy, Anna Held. Both fainted. The Amateur Athletic Union promptly dropped water polo from its schedule until a year...
...reported that Medica, while practicing in the Harvard pool during the past week, has swum world record figures; while Gilhula is at the very peak of his career, having shattered new records in practice races and wiped out several records held by Medica...