Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relatives at poker. Seven months from that fall day, he had built in the Ramapo hills 30 miles of roads, a sewage and water system, a park gatehouse "like a frontispiece to an English novel," 22 cottages, two blocks of stores, stables, a dam, an icehouse, clubhouse, swimming pool...
...draft law has its faults. Biggest trouble is that the law is a wartime statute, put to pre-war use. Its pool of 17,000,000 registered men is unnecessarily large, will soon be bogged with middle-aged registrants. Men who were 35 when they registered last October remain technically subject to the draft until May 15, 1945. Yet the law has no adequate provision for taking in the 1,250,000 young men who turn 21 each year...
...spite of this, Adams has much to offer frrom the architectural viewpoint. The suites are large and pleasant, once you get to them, and the dining room and library are very attractive. The swimming pool is a feature unrivalled in any House. And perhaps most important of all, Adams is the only House from which you can safely leave for a class when the Memorial Hall bell rings...
Those men who placed will receive medals if they so desire. Since there will be a charge, they are asked to leave their names in the office at the pool...
...first place the H.A.A. hasn't got the money to finance the trip out to Michigan and in the second place Franny isn't too keen about spending two more dreary weeks of training. Paddling over a mile a day up and down the pool is boring enough when the rest of the team is doing it with you, but when you're all alone it's duller than Monday night at the Raymor...