Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Study was founded, on a special University fund in 1938, it moved into its present home. The building, which once contained athletic facilities, was remodeled, and offices replaced the squash courts. A swimming pool in the rear is now used by a drama group for rehearsals, with the Study's permission...
...life from the royalties of it and other wells. It had also proved up another big area in Scurry County's incredible Canyon Reef oilfield, where movie stars and other hopeful wildcatters had been prospecting for months (TIME, Oct. 10). To oilmen it looked as if the Scurry pool was the biggest since the East Texas field came in in 1930. Estimates of its riches ranged upwards of one billion barrels...
...laden limestone reef some 6,500 ft. down. Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest oil leaseholder on the continent, had once held leases all over Scurry, but had let most of them lapse. Even the first wells drilled in what later proved to be the heart of the pool did not turn out well. Not until November 1948 did Standard of California's subsidiary, Standard of Texas, bring in its first big well to start the boom...
Only four key men from last year's varsity swimming team aren't working out in the Indoor Athletic Building pool for the '49-50 season but their absence gas evoked Coach Hal Ulen's squad in three events...
...hill above the southern Okinawa plain lie the ruins of Shuri castle; all that remains of the ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out of which pours a clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open. It has a student and faculty body of 90; cases of books from...