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Updated: July 19, 2025
Why, dash it, we could have got the thing for about two dollars if we had pooled our bids." "Well, we'd better pool them now, and extinguish that pill at the back there. I can't go above eleven hundred. That's all I've got." "I can't go above eleven hundred myself." "There's just one thing. I wish you'd let me be the one to hand the thing over to Father.
Jennie and Nancy pooled their pocket money and bought a light skiff a flat-bottomed affair which was just the thing for them to paddle about in shallow water, and was "seaworthy." No ordinary amount of rocking could turn the skiff over. They often pulled into the still pools, or meadow ponds, opening into the river, and plucked water-lilies.
While those wearisome word-battles in which the personal element played an undue part were being waged in the twilight of a secluded Valhalla, the Supreme Economic Council decided that the seized Austrian vessels must be pooled among all the Allies.
They pooled their intellects and plunged into the problem of creating an encephalograph that would record the infinitesimal irregularities that were superimposed upon the great waves. Their operation became large; they bought the old structure on top of the hill and moved in, bag and baggage.
The only inconvenience attached to this system was that the underwear, shirts and socks were pooled and they sometimes got mixed, and our battalion being comprised chiefly of very large men sometimes had difficulty struggling into their clean underwear.
Indeed, the very situation we discussed that day has been cited in some of our modern text-books as a classic consequence of that archaic school of economics to which the name of Manchester is attached. Some half dozen or so of the railroads running through the anthracite coal region had pooled their interests, an extremely profitable proceeding. The public paid.
The University of Wisconsin has been in recent years the leader in this extension work. Minnesota, and most of the central and western states are active in the campaign of carrying education and culture to outlying communities. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota have recently pooled their forces for some exchange of service in extension work.
The only obvious cure is a Utopian one: institute one currency for Europe in the name of the League of Nations. Let us have "League of Nations gold currency." But to have that the resources of Europe must be pooled. We are not ready for that. Czecho-slovakia is the watchdog of the new peace in Central Europe.
When PARDON, I mean if I get the title, I will do the fair thing by you. You shall do the same by me. Is it a bargain?" On this basis the compact was made. The camp was much amazed, not to say disgusted, because there was no fight. Well-meaning efforts were made at intervals through the winter to bring on a crisis. But nothing came of it. The rival claimants had pooled their stock.
Indeed, the very situation we discussed that day has been cited in some of our modern text-books as a classic consequence of that archaic school of economics to which the name of Manchester is attached. Some half dozen or so of the railroads running through the anthracite coal region had pooled their interests, an extremely profitable proceeding. The public paid.
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