Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...material on her hands, and she would be delighted to contribute it to the U.N.'s cause. The Manila Evening News quickly made a report: Housewife Planas had several depots of "armored cars, trucks, machine guns . . . 1,000 tanks . . . all sorts of field equipment... the biggest pool of war equipment in the islands...
Although virtually nothing is known about the causes of cancer, something is known about its geography; it seems to strike differently in different parts of the world. Last week, 20 cancer experts from eleven nations gathered in Oxford, England, to pool their existing knowledge of the geography of cancer and plan new expeditions to explore its unmapped territory...
There was no faster man in a swimming pool, said the experts, than Japan's phenomenal 21-year-old Hironoshin Furuhashi-unless it was Yale's phenomenal 20-year-old John Marshall of Australia. Ox-chested Furuhashi broke two world records in his visit to the U.S. last year (TIME, Aug. 29). Lanky John Marshall had broken a couple of his own since then (TIME, July 31). In Tokyo last week, the two of them met for the first time...
...World" translation of the New Testament, prepared by Witness scholars to replace the "infected and corrupted" translations of all other versions. They turned out in force for a high point of every convention-the mass baptism of new members. In a 25-by-75-yard swimming pool rented for the occasion, 34 Witnesses, working in relays, immersed 3,381 bathing-suited converts in four hours...
...revealing, evocative, sometimes contrived but always effective. Much of it, as the camera roams the Desmond mansion, sustains the mood of a good ghost story: a pet chimpanzee is solemnly buried by candlelight; the wind sighs through a pipe organ; rats scurry across the bottom of an empty swimming pool. The modern Hollywood is reflected in a gallery of expertly drawn types. Actress Desmond's Hollywood of the past comes alive in the fantastic trappings of her house and in her visiting bridge companions ("the Waxworks"), played by Hollywood Oldtimers Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson and H. B. Warner...