Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University Naval representatives will participate in this week's recruiting drive for the civilian Naval Reserve, NROTC headquarters announced last night. The drive aims at creating a pool of 1,500,000 men who can be ready for emergencies...
...sixteen hundred dollars and made two acquaintances who were to prove extremely useful. One of them was a wealthy and influential manufacturer, the other a prominent banking official. Mr. Forsyth got Cocoris a license, and the banker got him a loan enabling him in 1916 to start a combination pool room and Greek restaurant on Knee of carrying itself, Cocoris scrapped the pool room. The concern moved to its present location on the second floor at 51 Stuart Street in 1925 when Kneeland Street was widened...
...influx has brought problems. Pickpockets (mostly adolescent) are a nuisance. Pimps and prostitutes are on the increase. A score are arrested daily and one bold baggage was caught with a monk who had rented a hotel room for an unmonkish purpose. On West Lake, that lovely shallow blue pool, girt by green hills, watched by graceful pagodas and crossed by willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book...
...Island is different from that of a mother in Ontario. Since the Eskimo boy early learns to stalk his meals he needs a rifle, but the Government says no rifles can go to children under ten. Last week the council was faced with a poser: some Eskimos wanted to pool their allowances to buy a boat -to help get food for their children. The council was not sure. It put the question over, to see if the money could not be raised elsewhere...
...these mildly fanatic amateurs who call themselves hams? During the war, the armed forces found that they were a ready-made pool of trained communications experts. Since the war, the number of hams in the U.S. has risen to nearly 80,000 operators, with 50,000 stations (two-thirds of the world total). The FCC is now granting over 1,000 new licenses a month. Some predict that within five years there will be 250,000 U.S. hams...