Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to that elegant, if conscience-stricken, practitioner of letters, Vincent Sheean, in TIME, May 3. . . . Certainly no one alive does the "Says I to Churchill, and says Winnie to me" stuff any better. As to the swimming pool you so thoughtfully reproduce. . . . If he believes that nudity is a prerogative of the idle rich, I would urge his attendance at the mass rites at Coney Island any summer Sunday. But Mr. Sheean, lush hedonist, has his inevitable moment of compunction when he changes to his near-Marxist line, like the man who doesn't kiss, but tells. Perhaps...
...Caucasus and out of Africa: he was backing across the Mediterranean. The Japs had lost no ground, but they had not moved beyond Burma. Now the Allies could operate, for the first time, on favorable and shortened communication lines. A strategic reserve of shipping, men and weapons-that pool behind the lines which can decide battles and wars-could now be conveniently shifted across the world...
...nationwide experiment to determine how many men rejected for cardiac ailments might be salvaged for limited service. First reports were encouraging: of 2,000 men examined in New York and Philadelphia, 400 were found fit. If that percentage held up, Selective Service would have tapped a useful pool of manpower in its own backyard...
...civilians' change from present environments to "duration quarters" will be interesting in many ways, for the seven Houses have, until now, maintained distinct characteristics. Physical distinctions, such as Dunster's proximity to M. I. T., Lowell's seldom heard bells, and Adams' Gold Coast swimming pool, will remain unchanged, but the personnel transition has great possibilities...
J.A.s dug up war work. In Chicago last week the Midget Manufacturing Co. was hacking away at an Army contract for 150,000 pants hangers. In Cleveland four J.A. companies are turning out 10,000 foundry wedges for aircraft parts every week; in New Jersey a J.A. pool (which includes the Intricate Trinkets Co.) is making shipping blocks to protect aircraft pumps in transit. And in Pittsburgh the Sesame Specialty Co. (all girls) is looking for foreign business: they have an incendiary bomb blanket already approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines...