Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cadets were unbeatable. The all-conquering Army swimmers, who snapped Yale's great 66-meet winning streak last month, sank the Navy, 44-to-31. Ray Thayer, an exponent of power rather than form, swam on the winning relay, took the 50-yd. sprint and cracked the Academy pool record with...
Somewhere in this muddle was a middle ground that would give passengers the benefits of better service and equipment, and give the railroads the benefit of a car pool. But neither Berge nor the railroads seemed to know where to find the answer. Said the Justice Department last week...
Captain W. C. Kulesz, of A.T.S.C.'s aeromedical laboratory at Wright Field, had a bright idea: why not use an ordinary portable oxygen cylinder and mask, such as bomber crews wear in high-altitude flight? The captain promptly donned a mask, jumped into a swimming pool. It worked. Further tests showed that with such a mask a man could breathe for 6 minutes at 10 ft. under water, for 3½ minutes at 50 ft. Normally this should give a man, unless he is too badly injured, time to break out of a plane cabin or turret...
...speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards in 49.4 seconds, faster than any human ever swam before. It shattered Johnny Weissmuller's 17-year-old (20-yd. pool) record by four-tenths of a second...
...Goodrich, the civilians promised not to shave until the drive was over, shaved absentee civilians on their return to work and cut their trousers off at the knee-signifying an ignominious return to boy status. Workers at the U.S. Rubber plant chipped in to form a $10,000 pool, to be divided among workers in departments with the highest "presenteeism" rate...