Word: musclebound
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...physical education. Three years later, he was put in charge of the Carnegie Pool, where he taught himself to coach swimmers by watching them swim. He promptly adopted a radical method to improve the physical condition of his squad: gymnasium exercises, which most coaches then thought made swimmers musclebound. Stocky, shock-haired, absorbed in his vocation, Bob Kiphuth found himself recognized as the ablest U. S. swimming coach when he was chosen to train the 1928 U. S. Olympic team. In 1932, functioning in the same capacity, he was libeled by Cartoonist Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley who magnified...