Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Perhaps significant is the Crimson's winning so many firsts without stacking the lineup, a reversal of last month's Springfield results. A massive effort will still be required, however, to beat Navy in the Annapolis pool this Saturday...
Hedges of Spears. The 60-room clubhouse, formerly the British-owned Mawingo Hotel, overlooks a heated, kidney-shaped swimming pool and some of the most magnificent scenery in Africa. There are Turkish baths, massage parlors, hairdressing salons, and big freezing rooms in case anyone leaves the amenities long enough to shoot a buck or gazelle. Inside, the club is alive with jungle plants and palm trees; the entrance to the bars and wine vaults are framed by hedges of African spears. Each room has its own bath and fireplace. A special club airplane is provided for anyone in a hurry...
...independent firm -American Asiatic Underwriters - and be came agent for a dozen U.S. insurance companies, including Fireman's Fund, Continental and Great American. He violated the custom of the European colony by giving responsible jobs to Chinese, thus opened up the Chinese community to his salesmen. His Asian pool expanded so rapidly that in 1926 Starr returned to New York and created the American International Underwriters Corp. to centralize reporting for his Shanghai companies and to develop insurance in the U.S. on risks abroad. Starr's hard drive for busi ness did not endear him to more genteel...
Exposed. In Wuppertal, Germany, police are looking for a passer-by who was offended by a bronze sculpture of a nude woman outside the city swimming pool, glued and feathered her one night, left a sign: "One hundred frying pans could have been made out of this...
Once he put a partially paralyzed dolphin in a pool. As it sank helplessly toward the bottom, it gave its "mayday" call, and the other dolphins rushed to its rescue. They boosted it up to the surface so it could breathe. When it sank again, one of them swam under it, scraping its tender undersurface and triggering a reflex action of its tail that shot it up to the air. The operation was accompanied by a blizzard of dolphin talk...