Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal which largely ends economic competition between Chattanooga's two remaining papers and puts them in a position to make wartime operating economies, Groceryman McDonald became president of a new company which will pool circulation, advertising and mechanical staffs of the News-Free Press (evening) and the Chattanooga Times (morning). A bigger compliment to Groceryman McDonald was the agreement by the Chattanooga Times (the late great Adolph Ochs's steppingstone to the New York Times and still controlled by the Ochs family) to discontinue its evening edition. Started two years ago to give the fast-growing News-Free...
Father Chase, once a seafaring man, used to lull little Ilka asleep with gamy sea chanteys. So young Ilka was hurried off to the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus where, it was hoped, the sisters might teach her manners. They also taught her "a very smooth game of pool." One of the Convent's buildings, the former residence of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, had contained a pool table which "the dear Sisters had seen no reason for removing." Says Author Chase: "It was a pretty sight to see Mother Mary Agnes, who shot a mean ball, leaning backward...
...Grant Study in Social Adjustments", to give the full dress title, ocoupies the made-over squash courts and swimming pool known as "Big Tree." Here a seven-man crew: a physician, and anthropologist, a physiologist, two psychiatrists, a psychologist, and a persomel worker join in a cooperative, correlative effort and by studying selected groups of Sophomores, are attempting to analyze the forces that have produced normal young...
...seven of these experts apply simple techniques in their own fields to each of the undergraduates that they have as participants, and frequently get together and pool their results. The comparisons of the bodies of data thus accumulated have resulted already in the discovery of some interesting facts...
...role of the college in building an American fighting force is at last clear. Army announcement of the deferment of a pool of prospective officers until the completion of their education makes every college an American training camp, for it recognizes that only the colleges can provide the highly trained manpower necessary to lead the modern army. American education must arm itself to face this challenge. Preparation for a democratic offensive must take its place in the curriculum...