Word: poolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York and Chicago to sell Wurlitzer's jukeboxes, had become accustomed to reports of gang beatings and killings as "liabilities of the business." Wurlitzer officials denied all, and Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, who held the Wurlitzer sales-manager job before Hammergren, called the testimony "dirty pool" on Democrat Kennedy's part...
...West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that each bore 300 Ibs. of gold. He built his wife a swimming pool in the desert, and filled it with water borne in skins by his slaves; he turned the fabled city of Timbuktu into a trading center and a refuge for scholars. But such medieval empires one by one faded away. Gradually the history of Africa became, not the story of those...
...some combination of Koni Ulbrich, Fred Cooley, and Dave Seaton in the 220 and Bob Komanda in the 440. The Lion's third big strength is the dive, where the use of a low board favors the Lion's Stew Summers and Glenn Gemelli over Chick Montgomery. The home pool factor, however, may be able to offset this and break up the Dartmouth combination...
Both varsity teams are very evenly matched. Swimming ability and numerous extraneous factors such as the home pool, the order of the races, and the score at particular points in the meet will contribute to a tense contest...
Handicaps include a 20-yard pool rather the customary 25. This physical obstacle is sometimes a hard, but necessary, adjustment. Other difficulties are forcefully displayed in the persons of Rog Neckton, a capable 220- and 440-yard freestyler, Dave Carrington, a 2:14 200- yard backstroker, Bill Lawson, the Gymnasts' co-captain and New England inter-collegiate diving champion, and Jonathan Owen, also co-captain and an outstanding performer in the 200-yard butterfly...