Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other characteristics. Opposing ships maneuver, and then fire at each other by a complicated system. (Airplanes, torpedoes and submarines are added factors.) Publication by Pratt of a 30-page book describing his game, in 1940, resulted in the formation of over 20 clubs about the country, whose members crawl around the floor one night a week, cheerfully destroying the capital ships of the world...
Chin Up. The Battle of the Pacific has demonstrated the need for flyers who can handle themselves in water. Preflight cadets are taught to swim in waterlogged uniforms, to master the chin-up breast stroke instead of the crawl, to swim under water, to strive for endurance rather than speed. At the end of the three-month course, each man should be able to stay afloat for five hours...
...most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time a cadet is ready to graduate, he must be able to finish this course in four minutes flat. At North Carolina one fledgling has already done...
Conspicuous on one evening lately was a foursome of professional-looking crawl swimmers that for minutes on end swam lengthwise up and down the pool, displaying their best form. On inquiry, one of them was found to be none other than Miss Jean Booth, State Junior 100 Yard Free Style Champion. The three men with her seemed to be enjoying the competition. Some bench-sitters, on the other hand, could be heard voicing displeasure. Exhibitionism was charged...
...Chungking Ferry carries everything: bombs, guns, ammo, medical supplies, even gasoline for the thin stores of China, even though the quantity carried is only a drop in the bucket. Its planes fly unarmed, crawl into clouds or hedgehop through the valleys when the Jap jumps them up, hoping the A.V.G. will come out to rescue them. When the A.V.G. is busy elsewhere, they manage to get through anyhow...