Word: diver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stevens '97 has dented a trophy to be given to the outstanding diver in the Freshman class, it was announced by the Athletic Association yesterday. The Yardling swimming mentor and Varsity diving coach. Larry Peterson, will be the judge...
Died. Georgia Coleman, 28, blonde, onetime (1932) Olympic champion diver; of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. Her career snipped short by infantile paralysis in 1937, Diver Coleman made a heroic recovery, learned to swim all over again...
...weight to his fantastic diagnosis, "Doctor" Powers quoted medical textbooks, cited cases of other athletes who had been "struck down in the dark by the dread 'polio' germ." He dressed up his four-column story with a full-bosomed photograph of Diver Georgia Coleman (stricken with infantile paralysis three years ago), pathetic pictures of onetime Iron Man Gehrig "before and after," and a lurid drawing of "the Yanks" smitten by a terrifying plague...
...primarily used for protection from enemy pursuit. The machine-gun sight in front of the pilot is also his bomb sight and, with no more complicated sighting equipment than that, he is able to make dive bombing as accurate as the U. S. Navy and its Curtis, O2C Hell Diver long ago (1928) proved it could be against seacraft. The only new aspect of Germany's dive bombing is that it is used to a large extent on land targets, supplementing and substituting for heavy artillery fire...
...seems likely that these are to be their only satisfactions, for not only does Yale lay claim to stars of the calibre of Howle Johnson, all-around free-styler, and Jim Cook, outstanding diver, but in some events the Elis can produce stars two or three deep. Harvard's breastrokers have not, up to now, been able to surpass 2:32 even in practice, yet Yale has Meyer, Gesner, and Metcalfe who are below that mark. Her divers, Cook and Munding, are consistently scoring well above George Dana's all-time best point total...