Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...idea man for "Old Profanity"-the late Utilitarian Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell -who was then expanding the already huge, sprawling Electric Bond & Share empire. In 1923, young Odlum got to work for himself in a small way. He started Atlas Corp. as a $40,000 investment pool. His associates were his friend George Howard (since 1929 president of United Corp. and still one of Atlas' largest stockholders) and his wife (No.1), able Hortense Odlum (now president of Manhattan's thriving Bonwit Teller, specialty store, still Odlum's business associate and a big Atlas stockholder...
...French have a knack for wallowing in dirt and being fascinating withal. The muddier the pool the keener their desire to throw stones into it and watch the ripples. The darkness of the human mind and the dirt of existence are what they love to dwell on; and they do so to their heart's content (and the horror of the audience) in "The Human Beast," current film at the Fine Arts...
...resolutions. Last week the Roman Catholic Church went on record. Before 6,000 policemen at a Communion breakfast, a speaker cried: "As [policemen] you have learned the full meaning of what is called a matrimonial triangle. . . . You have seen a corner of one of these triangles in a pool of blood. . . . Any professor guilty of teaching or writing ideas which will multiply the stages upon which these tragedies are set shall not be countenanced in this city...
Highlighted by Lonnie Stowell's two victories in the 50 and 440-free-style, the University Handicap Swimming Championships were held yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. Other winners were: 100 breast, Phil Walker; 100 free, Ed Prince; 100 back, Jay Ach; 220 free, Fred Whoriskey, and 150 individual medley, Max Kraus. Tom Godfrey proved to be an iron man as he swam in the backstroke 220 and 440 in succession, taking a third and two seconds...
...swimming, only one. A baseball player may garner in his letter while picking off a few dandelions in the outfield as the last strike in the last inning of the last game with Yale is hurled. But in the middle of a clinched 220, no substitute arches into the pool to finish the race and receive his reward...