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...than she was a year ago but just as versatile, Minnow Rawls broke her own world's record in the 300-meter medley championship, barely missed regaining her 220-yd. breast stroke title which went to Margaret Hoffman of Scranton, Pa. Helen Meany, who was the best platform diver in the U. S. from 1921 to 1928, tried to make a comeback. She hurt her wrists, neck and shoulders so badly preparing for the final that she had to withdraw but her younger sister, Mrs. Frances Meany Scofield, got second place, nearly seven points behind golden-haired Dorothy Poynton...
...there is something in the air that will not let him sleep. There are voices high and low. They seem to swim up through the shimmering heat like the sounds of a diver talking through a sea of molasses. How stupid all this was! Just last night, or was it last night? he had been dancing with the most beautiful women in all the world. Their faces still floated around him, and he could remember the faint scent of sachet. A Junior Usher can muscle in on almost everything. They had spoken to him like dream women wrapping...
...gold in the South Seas during the War. Captain Schlemmer (Fredrik Vogeding) escapes with one shipmate, kills him on a desert island. Years later he ships with a lady oceanographer (Fay Wray) on her yacht bound for the site of the sunken treasure. Also along is a diver (Ralph Bellamy), who is at first more interested in his craft than in Miss Wray. The iniquitous Teuton, best actor in the cast, soon shows his stripe by trying to get all the gold for himself. He is dragged beneath the waves to his death for his pains. Love for the oceanographer...
...carries a crew of two, has room for two more. Attached to the bottom are sprocketed wheels which enable the vessel to trundle over the sea bottom, under floating structures. A manhole in the craft's bottom opens when internal air pressure exceeds external water pressure, enables a diver to walk outdoors or an investigative Beebe to make comfortable, direct observations of fish life. The device can move a short distance by its own power. But ordinarily a mother ship will tow it to the site of diving operations, will there drag it over the bottom, supply...
With few weaknesses showing in the eight events and only one serious loss through graduation, that of Sidney Bluhm '32, regular diver on last year's team, Coach Ulen expects to start a strong team against Tech in the first contest of the year. Following the usual limbering-up exercises which began early in the fall, the squad entered the pool in the middle of November and has spent most of the time on fundamentals...