Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoky Virginia hills near Washington, Chet Bowles has a white frame house, his own brook, a big swimming pool. There live his second wife, "Steb," a former social worker whom he married in 1934, two daughters, a son, two spaniels, four Persian cats. In the evenings he likes to sprawl on the living-room rug, surrounded by his family, with a cocktail and the afternoon papers. On mild weekends, he likes to have family picnics, with a bountiful supply of hot dogs and cold milk...
Hatry, now 56, rose from a West End clerkship to control of the Commercial Bank of London after World War I. Soon there was an un-British display of Hatry wealth: ornate bathrooms for his office suite, a swimming pool in his Mayfair home, a yacht, a racing stable. In 1924, his bank failed...
...knows he fares best when the tigers are biting each other's tails; if he has to leave Java, he wants to go back to Malaya and agitate for freedom there. It would be fine with him if nothing is left of the tigers but a great big pool of melted butter...
Trinity's Tyler brothers, Dave, Bob, and Dick, will give Hal Ulen's once-victorious and once-beaten swimming squad a tough fight tomorrow night in the Indoor pool at 8 o'clock, according to all advance indications...
...that "the only people who like to write [are] the people who write terribly." Scanning his first week's effort, some readers wondered if he was beginning to like his work. F.P.A. is unworried: if the three-month syndicate trial doesn't pan out, he still makes pool-table pin money on radio's Information Please (around $500 a week...