Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...casual observer finds the fire station, located in front of Mem Hall, a Republican cartoon of W.P.A. inaction. Everywhere shirt-sleeved men are loafing. In the third floor recreation room a dozen firefighters play penny ante, some of the more energetic shoot pool, and a few others watch traffic along Cambridge Street. Down the hall in a library-common room another group smokes, reads Esquire and the New Yorker, occasionally studies. Off the kitchen, where a stoutish chap is raiding the refrigerator, the Bonfire Band struggles through "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in preparation for the policeman-fireman ball...
...patrons, hired young Topliff in 1811 to round up items. Reporter Topliff hired a boat, rowed down the harbor to meet incoming ships, got his news fresh from the passengers before they landed. Six New York City dailies later followed suit, outfitted a harbor boat, started a news pool. They called it The Associated Press, and it was the predecessor of Victor Lawson's agency...
...Mexico City suburb of Coyoacan, not far from the house where Leon Trotsky was mortally hacked, stands a 25-acre, walled-in estate packed with recreations for a hearty body: a jai alai court, swimming pool, tennis court, club house with reducing machine, paths winding among citrus trees and flower beds, Turkish bath, barbershop, and seven residences for family and guests. Last week this estate was put up for sale for 52,000 pesos ($10,842), about one-tenth its assessed value. The sale and the cheap price symbolized the decline of a hope: the estate was the property...
Colonel Pfeil's main task (under the technical supervision of Adjutant General Emory S. Adams) is to keep the boys from getting homesick. His weapons: motion pictures, ping-pong, baseball, pool tables, camp huts where soldiers can dance, play games (crap shooting is discouraged), write home under the eye of impregnably respectable middle-aged hostesses...
Many an educator envied Mr. Hancher his job. Through the middle of the University in Iowa City rolls the peaceful Iowa River. The University buildings are on a gigantic scale: its field house contains a full-sized practice football field; its indoor swimming pool is one of the largest in the U. S. On the river banks stand a Rockefeller-financed Medical College, a Rockefeller-financed theatre, a Carnegie-financed art building. Even more famed is Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station...