Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shack (Mrs. Roosevelt and the late President sent some books). Scotts Run small fry and bobby-soxers use the Shack for archery, croquet, ping-pong, dances ("We've got a juke box," boasts Smith, "and we're not ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table he says: "It puts us one up on the nearest beer hall." Smith's explanation of his work: "When Christ was on earth He made the blind to see, the lame to walk. We, too, believe in ministering to the people's everyday wants in order...
Last week saw the completion of one of his most cherished projects, the Miners' Memorial Pool to provide free summer swimming and winter skating for Scotts Run. Assembled for the dedication were representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the A.F.L., the C.I.O., the U.M.W, as well as a mine operator, an editor, a Catholic priest and a Presbyterian churchman...
...home, Ed shaved in a $7,500 goldleaf bathroom, ate in a white-and-silver dining room at a glass-topped table, relaxed in a game room with a miniature pool table flanked by a rolling bar. Eighteen years ago Ed had been a Pullman-car porter. Now he had the golden touch. Would it work on the kidnapers...
...rumpled, sore-eyed, unshaven Negro was turned loose on a Chicago side street. (The Daily News set the ransom at $100,000.) Ed couldn't seem to remember the kidnaping, his connection with the policy racket, or anything else. But Bronzeville's memory was excellent. From the pool and dance and spiritualist halls to Dr. Pryor's Holy Floor Wash Factory and King Solomon's Temple of Religious Science, there was holiday. Big Ed was back...
...periods of quiescence Mauna Loa is a rough-surfaced, gentle-sloped mountain, 13,680 ft. high, with a hole in its head. But in eruption it is a thing out of Dante's Inferno, frothing with burning gas, squirting great cherry-red fountains from a shimmering pool of lava. Sometimes the lava overflows, oozes down the mountain; sometimes it blows a vent through the wall of the cone below the crest; and again it may rise in the crater well, put on incomparable pyrotechnics, then retire under a hardening shell...