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...simply a retired actress? No, indeed. She left the stage to take a husband. But when she lost a husband she did not leave an active life in politics and the world of affairs. She runs three farms. She keeps pedigreed milch cows. She directs the State Wool Pool. She works for the American Farm Bureau Federation. She works for the Democratic Party...
...John B. Henderson of Washington, planning to spend the Summer abroad, bethought herself of a less fortunate lady, and offered Mrs. Coolidge the use of her private swimming-pool during the early morning hours several times a week. Mrs. Coolidge accepted and asked that Mrs. George Wharton Pepper (Republican, Pennsylvania) and Mrs. Andrieus A. Jones (Democrat, New Mexico) be invited to share the pool with her at the designated hours...
...very narrow at that point, however, and it is thought that a swimmer of even ordinary ability could have reached the shore. Rules for sculling in the University demand that a man who takes out a wherry be able to swim four lengths of the Big Tree Swimming Pool. He is also instructed implicitly to remain by his shell in case of accident...
...Royal National Eisteddfod, Ponty-pool, Sauth Wales...
...arid region was believed to have been wholly dependent for water on the Spring of Gihon, near the base of the hill on which the ancient city was built. Pumps were then unknown. Underground canals carried the water to other points, at one of which a dam formed the pool of Siloam. At intervals shafts led down to the canals, through which the inhabitants drew up water in buckets. Elsewhere were inclined tunnels down to the canals, through which men could walk. By them David's men entered the city when they captured it from the Jebusites...