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Word: hoses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finest free divers in the world is Security Analyst Peter Gimbel, 32, husky, Yale-bred scion of the department-store family. As a boy, Gimbel sat on the bottom of his parents' pool with a five-gallon can over his head, gulping air from a garden hose. He grew up to become a crack ocean diver, swam on the first team to reach the Italian liner Andrea Doria, 42 fathoms down off Nantucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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