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...door was hoisted into place on its lugs and screwed down tight with spanners and mauls. The supporting boom swung over the side, cable squeaked, the sphere ducked under. Cable was paid out at 50 ft. per minute. Log of the dive : 500 ft.: School of silvery squid. 900 ft.: Color of water turquoise black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deepest Down | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...Beebe had intended to try for a half-mile dive, but at 2,510 ft. he had a hunch, he said later, that he had better not go down any farther. While he was yammering excitedly into the mouthpiece, Mr. Barton exposed 25 ft. of cinema film and took five stills on supersensitive plates. Soon the dripping ball was on the barge deck again and the divers popped out. Said Dr. Beebe: "I have never seen so much stuff in my life, and new stuff, too. It is the silliest thing in the world to attempt to describe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deepest Down | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...fans by his miraculous running catches out in left field. On Saturday he reached his peak by grabbing a tons fly just as it came shifting through the branches of a tree that obstructed the far side of the pasture. Then, too, Hraman Gibbs had to take a nose dive under the score

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY SLIDES INTO LEAGUE'S FOURTH SPOT | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...championship in 1931, when she was 13. From four nights of splashing and thrashing in the Lake Shore pool there emerged last week ten national indoor championships and two world's records. Individual titles: 300-yd. medley - Katherine Rawls 100-yd. free-style-Olive McKean Low-board dive-Katherine Rawls 100-yd. breast-stroke-Doris Shimman 220-yd. free-style - Lenore Kight 100-yd. back-stroke-Eleanor Holm Jarrett Highboard dive-Dorothy Poynton 500-yd. free-style - Lenore Kight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies in the Pool | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...backstroke, 100 yd. free-style- was 4:12.2 (2.6 faster than her own world's record). The other world's record was Mrs. Jarrett's 1:10.4 in the 100-yd. backstroke, more than six seconds faster than her best previous official time. In the highboard dive, Minnow Rawls placed second to Dorothy Poynton. She beat Miss Poynton narrowly in the low-board event, after her opponent's final dive, a running front jackknife with a half twist, caught the judges' eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies in the Pool | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

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