Word: divericate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poydras, La., one Ted Herbert, deep sea diver, dived into the Mississippi, set off more dynamite at the Poydras Cut. The current pulled his diver's helmet over his head, almost drowned him. Diving a second time he discarded the helmet, and, as he had no other diving equipment dived naked like a South Sea Islander. Superstitious, Diver Herbert said that if he let his picture be taken, certain death would follow...
Married. Helen Wainwright, 19, able swimmer, onetime (1922) national champion diver; to Leonard Holland, theatre organist; in Dallas...
Helium, which goes out of solution far more swiftly than nitrogen, and is just as inert chemically, promises to serve as an efficient substitute for nitrogen as the 79% inert diluent of oxygen in a diver's breathing atmosphere, and to permit longer work at greater depths...
...reason with care. In college education, it holds the added significance of wide speculation inducing as sound general conclusions on existence as a term of four years will permit. Din, educational or otherwise, is not consonant with formal education. The student is somewhat in the position of a diver gauging the spring of the board and the depth of the pool. It is hardly prudent to push him in before he has some idea of how far he will be thrown and how deep the water...
...Otto Kraft, 20-year-old expert German diver, established what is said to be a world's record when he achieved a depth of 238 feet, last week, while searching vainly...