Word: granton
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...those who have tried have ever succeeded-until last week. Then W. E. Barnie, an Edinburgh science teacher, girded up his loins, plunged in at Burntisland, on the North side, struggled for 4 hours and 10 minutes with swirling tide rips and deadly cold patches, stumbled ashore at Granton, on the South side. A direct line from Burtisland to Granton is only six miles; Barnie covered ten, owing to the currents...