Word: deforest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mainspring of any Penn upset will be Don DeForest, ace two-event man who apparently is the only topnotcher among the visitor's ranks. DeForest, probably the second best backstroker in the country, will also take on Ted Norris and Jerry German...
With significant assistance from the rest of his Pennsylvania colleagues, a chap named Don DeForest wrapped up 15 points by himself last Saturday in a meet against Hal Ulen's visiting men, and drowned them in their Philadelphia pool...
...DeForest's performance not only set the pace in the 220 and 100 yard free-styles and the 150-yard breast stroke, but he didn't climb out of the water once in the three tries without engraving a Penn record in the scorebook...
...distance race DeForest nipped a second off his own record of 2:15 flat made last year. His more modest effort in the 100 was enough to equal his own previous best, and the previous college record with 52.7. A little less than seven seconds was shaved from the 1934 record in the 200 yard breast stroke when the stop-watch showed 2:27.8 as the versatile waterman hit the wall...
Prince Otto Weriand Hugo Ernst Windisch-Graetz, one of the biggest land holders in the area, turned up in Rome with a solution to this problem: a new sovereign state with himself as ruler. At the very least, he insisted, Yugoslavs must not be permitted to deforest any area ceded to them, lest the springs...