Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Single Joke. Harry Truman's week went unrelieved by fun. He got in four afternoon sessions of exercising and splashing in the pool. He got away from the White House only once-to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Artist Douglas Grahville Chandor, where he admired the almost completed portrait of Citizen Churchill...
...pool champion of Council Bluffs (Iowa) is the Rev. Jacob R. Perkins, 66, pastor of Council Bluffs' First Congregational Church. For 25 years, white-haired Pastor Perkins has been baptizing, marrying and burying Council Bluffs' Congregationalists. He has also become one of the town's best known and best loved citizens. He eats lunch and plays bottle pool at the Elks Club, joins the town's sportsmen on fishing expeditions on which his Job-like patience is legendary...
Last week, with Hendy's strike settled, McCone took his first vacation in about six years. Friends doubted if he could stop working. When they visited him at his five-acre estate in San Marino, they found that, sure enough, he was supervising construction of a new swimming pool...
...another intramural front, Adams House tankmen yesterday tightened their grip on their swimming league lead by outsplashing Lowell 27 to 20 in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. Meanwhile Dunster athletes further bludgeoned Leverett with a 35 to 13 ducking to climb into fourth place behind Adams, Kirkland, and Winthrop...
...Cowboys" and wooden-looking Indians which Benton had first envisioned through a glass of beer. Said he: "As far back as I can remember, the Anheuser-Busch brewery used a picture of Custer's last stand on their calendars. I've seen it in every saloon and pool hall in the Southwest." Benton decided to paint his own version because he was confident that Cassily Adams' bloody panorama (for which Adolphus Busch Sr. paid $30,000 in 1892) was "not much of a picture." A good many barroom judges will still prefer the original...