Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Curwen stroked the first Exeter boat last spring and after rowing on the river last fall, spent the winter months in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. Taking over the stroke seat soon after Easter vacation, he paced the crew to the opening victory over M.I.T. and B.U. in the Rowe Cup regatta two weeks...
Between sessions Chambermen gathered by the goldfish pool in the Chamber patio, compared their New Deal-inflicted wounds. One noon some 100 of them played hookey from a Chamber luncheon, paid an adulatory visit to G. 0. P. Candidate Bob Taft. Close to 400 Senators and Representatives also had meals with the Chambermen, who have a new respect for politicians, since Congress has begun to act as a check on the New Deal...
...tell you, if you ask, that he likes it here. Considering the amount of time the boys have to spend on studies, pool and billiards are a lot more popular in the Union than they are outside. Billiards, of course, is the nicer game. The shots are much cleaner, and it doesn't have that back-room atmosphere...
...thinks that the idea back of a pool and a billiard room is pretty sound. Naturally studies and exams come first, but with a little application any fellow should be able to loosen up his wrist and hit a dead-center ball. Besides, it's good relaxation...
...Valley) and from Lillehammer up the Gudbrandsdal (Lågen River Valley), the Germans launched two mechanized columns which again showed the world, as in Poland, how a modern juggernaut can open the road to war. These spearheads, to be followed by heavier forces from the growing Nazi troop-pool in the Oslo district, drove to reach their comrades at Trondheim before the floundering Allies should surround that town and close the roads to reinforcements. One struck north to the copper town of Röros at a speed which excited correspondents called "lightning"-actually about 50 miles...