Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ross Mclntire, White House physician, kept the boss indoors, made him rest in the lounge chair by the fireplace in the pine-paneled living room. Midweek came before Dr. Mclntire permitted the President to disport his 6 ft. 2 in. in the buoyant, tepid waters of the glass-roofed pool. Canada's plumpish Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King lay in swimming trunks on a cot while Mr. Roosevelt splashed about...
...administration moved in, stumbled over some decaying policemen and began fumigating the police department. Judge Ferguson decided then that the time was ripe. First gobbet of muck he forked up was a million-dollar conspiracy among city and county officials, policemen and gamblers to operate a baseball pool. Among those he accused: Wayne County's fighting prosecutor ("I'll be in there sluggin' in the people's interest"), Duncan Cameron McCrea...
...Valley) and from Lillehammer up the Gudbrandsdal (Lågen River Valley), the Germans launched two mechanized columns which again showed the world, as in Poland, how a modern juggernaut can open the road to war. These spearheads, to be followed by heavier forces from the growing Nazi troop-pool in the Oslo district, drove to reach their comrades at Trondheim before the floundering Allies should surround that town and close the roads to reinforcements. One struck north to the copper town of Röros at a speed which excited correspondents called "lightning"-actually about 50 miles...
...factors in the A. T. F. A. Headed by mild, sandy-haired William Capers Rice, 38, mayor of Vidalia, Gum Turp. last year won an estimated $1,000,000 reduction in factorage interest rates and handling charges. It aims now to get rid of small stills dependent on factors, pool output in a central still system...
...House Committee might intend to swim up the Charles to Wellesley, Coach Hal Ulen, of the swimming team, was contacted. "To the best of my knowledge," the mentor declared, "no one by the name of Lyford has passed his swimming test. Since everyone must swim two lengths of the pool in order to graduate, this young man had better report for special instruction...