Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was still drifting along on the current of routine appropriation bills. Only one little rapid had been negotiated: the rejection of the World Court Protocol. Only one prominent landmark had been passed: the renewal of the RFC for two years. But the session floated in a placid pool on the brink of the legislative cataract into which it will plunge when it starts in earnest on the President's program...
...Surrey, where he fancies prize pigs. There far from his swank Park Lane house, where the extravagance of his fabulous stag parties awed even his rich friends, the greasy, thick-set little Armenian contemplated disaster. Garabed Bishirgian was now the "Pepper King," and, as all Britons knew, the pepper pool was due for a grand smash...
Capitalizing on the British craze for commodity speculation that started in 1932, a pool lofted the price of pepper from 18? per Ib. last autumn to 31?. That attracted the attention of Indian exporters, who promptly began to shake all their pepper on the pool. By last week London warehouses were bursting with no less than 42,000,000 Ib.-a three-year supply...
Forging out in front from the start, Harvard's undefeated Varsity swimming team downed a highly touted group of Colgate stars 50-21 in a fast encounter at the Crimson pool Saturday night. In a preliminary record-breaking meet, Mercersburg Academy defeated the powerful Freshman team...
...last 17 Intercollegiate Swimming Association championships, have been invincible in dual meets for the past ten years, is due largely to their coach. In 1914, Robert J. H. Kiphuth went to Yale as an instructor in physical education. Three years later, he was put in charge of the Carnegie Pool, where he taught himself to coach swimmers by watching them swim. He promptly adopted a radical method to improve the physical condition of his squad: gymnasium exercises, which most coaches then thought made swimmers musclebound. Stocky, shock-haired, absorbed in his vocation, Bob Kiphuth found himself recognized as the ablest...