Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sunday morning the Witnesses climaxed their convention with a mass baptism for 2,500 in the pool of a Detroit amusement park. Candidates arrived in a mile-long caravan of cars, were garbed in backless swimming suits, trunks, nightgowns, house dresses and play suits. When the Witnesses were still cluttering the pool at noon, the park's regulars grew impatient. The Witnesses obligingly speeded the remaining baptisms to a six-second dunking apiece...
...pursuers. Dawn broke in time for them to see the Richelieu's grand finale. Seaplanes from the Hermes came skimming in and loosed five long-snouted sea torpedoes. Titanic explosions shook the ocean and the mighty Richelieu settled by the stern in shallow water, surrounded by a vast pool of oil. Destroyed was one more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who in 1898 scuttled a blockship in Santiago Bay, Cuba, under the guns of Spain...
...brac on his barnstorming. He ships his finds back to "Belleigh Acres," his estate on the edge of Hollywood, to which it is said he adds a room every time he makes a picture. The estate includes a ten-room doghouse, an impressive community barn, the inevitable swimming pool. Horton never uses the pool...
...foot, 18-year-old Otto Jaretz of Chicago: the 220-yd. free style, opening race of the National A. A. U. swimming championships; in 2 min., 13 1/10 sec.; to break the U. S. record set by Johnny Weissmuller in 1927; at the seaside Coral Casino pool, Santa Barbara, Calif...
When, at the age of 22, Richard Halliburton lawlessly hid in the shrubbery, watched the Taj Mahal and his chance by moonlight, and swam in the lily-padded pool, he was neither putting on a show nor concocting copy: he was simply a college boy on the loose, a little bit crazy with romantic enthusiasm...