Word: dives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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
...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...
...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...
...booty. We could wear a uniform similar to the Legion's, and this would be sufficient to provide the necessary excuse for our forays. Anyone not a Legionnaire would be eligible to join; and since this would mean some 100,000,000 people, we could all dive into the pork barrel with three big cheers and a hip, hip, hooray. Our numbers would be ample to throw the fear of God into a considerable body of chicken-livered Congressmen who become panicky at the mere mention of veterans' votes. The disgusting spectacle of a lobby so powerful that...