Word: float
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already the government has given sixty dollars to every ex-soldier, sailor, and marine; to finance any of the other proposed schemes would require at least a billion dollars more. Federal taxes are staggeringly heavy now, and to try to float a new loan would be extremely inexpedient...
...Annapolis the University mermen will be required to swim under unusual conditions, since the pool there is but 60 feet long. Accordingly the usual 50-yard dash will be replaced by a 40-yard race, and plungers able to float over 60 feet will be judged according to their time in covering this distance...