Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little time because you don't want to get to the fieldhouse too early because then you have to sit around forever waiting for the game to start and you just get too nervous when you have to wait around. The problem is, no matter how many games of pool you play and no matter how long you stall going down to the fieldhouse, you still get there with six million hours to go and you have to sit around waiting and getting nervous anyway...
...biggest shift in the composition of the admitted pool occurred among black applicants. Last year, none of the 18 admitted blacks were recruited by the GSAS. This year, of a total of 20 admitted black candidates, nine of them were recruited...
...women's water polo team, now a club, hopes to make varsity status next year. This would entitle it to a full-time coach and more pool time for practice, Bromberg said. Baird, who is also assistant coach for the men's water polo team only began to coach the women two months...
Baird, however, was uncertain about the team's future. He said the new men's water polo coach is an advocate of the sport, and the new pool being built will permit an expanded women's program. But if there are any problems with the budget next year, "water polo will be the first to go," he said...
...blacks at a disadvantage in swimming, for example, where less fat and heavier bones make for less buoyancy. Dr. James Haines of Morehouse College tried a simple floating test on 841 students at the black school and found that 73% almost immediately sank to the bottom of the pool-"sinkers," he called them. In a similar test at nearby Georgia Tech, only 2% of white students showed the same tendency...