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...read the subjective book of these strange signs (signs standing out boldly, it seemed, which my conscious mind, as it explored my unconscious self, went searching for, stumbled against and passed around, like a diver groping his way), no one could help me with any rule, for the reading of that book is a creative act in which no one can stand in our stead, or even collaborate with us. And therefore how many there are who shrink from writing it; how many tasks are undertaken in order to avoid that one! Each happening, the Dreyfus case, the War, supplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proust | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Judged by their respective scores of 56-15 and 56-21 against M. I. T., the University team would seem to have slightly the edge over Brown, but the visitors have two good swimmers in Lewis and White and in Aldrich, a diver who is likely to take first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAST BROWN SWIMMERS INVADE POOL TONIGHT | 1/19/1932 | See Source »

Lowering the Harvard records in the backstroke and breast stroke for the second time in as many meets, the University tanksters swam their way last night to a 56-15 victory over M.I.T. Lykes, Technology's star diver, was the only one of the visitors to take a first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS AGAIN BROKEN AS MERMEN BEAT M.I.T. | 1/14/1932 | See Source »

Apparatus similar to that developed in California for diving practice has been installed in the basement of the Indoor Athletic Building. Consisting of straps to hold the diver in the air and a sawdust pit for landing purposes, the apparatus permits the development of good form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GYMNASIUM TO BE OPEN UNTIL 7 O'CLOCK UNDER NEW RULING | 12/1/1931 | See Source »

Artiglio II seaman, "in some mud the divers sent up from the Egypt's galley- cursed smelly mud!" Other "finds" washed by nose-holding sailors from the pantry mud: ¶ Brass disk stamped "P. & O." (the Egypt was a Peninsular & Orient liner). ¶ Rusty tube of a onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Wealth of the Egypt | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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