Word: crawls
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...weeks ago, after watching her, I promised to show her some new strokes. Mrs. Coolidge doesn't know she is taking lessons, but I am really teaching her the Australian crawl, a movement in which the hands paddle and the feet kick...
...Story. A small caravan led by A. M. Hassanein Bey, F.R.G.S., set out from Sellum on the Mediterranean in 1923, began to crawl in the sun's eye across the Libyan Desert. Seven months later, Explorer Hassanein reached El Fasher in the Sudan, having covered 2,200 miles of little-known terrain, discovered two important oases, mapped a new route from Egypt to equatorial Africa, collected a large amount of orographic geological material. He has written the narrative of that expedition...
...laughingly take six or seven baths while she was reading the fashion page of last month's Vanity Fair. It would do no good to rush upon her in full undress: she was old and callous and stood her ground like a man. Neither would it avail to crawl out the window, or ring the fire alarm, or pretend to drown in the tub. But now, by a system of secret signals, the distressed Innocent calls another member of the club, who enters with a shot gun or a new Vanity Fair. If with the former, the goody is shot...
...venerable savants of the French Academy decided to admit the following Anglo-Saxon sporting terms into the French language: challenge, camping, bookmaker, cricket, Boy Scout, champion, bridge. The words canter, crack and crawl were rejected...
...stroke that Weismuller used was the six beat crawl, which carried him through the water at a tremendous rate of speed...