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...Amtrak from New Haven took a particularly unattractive route through Connecticut to the city. Edward carried his two monogrammed duffle bags overarm across the terminal platform to the overcrowded taxi stands outside. He waited in the cold, watching his own breath diffuse the orange glow of sodium street lamps. God they're ugly, he thought. New York City makes me sick...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: THANKSERVING FICTION Dedicated to 'T' and 'Hr.Z' | 11/22/1995 | See Source »

Rocky was called to the rescue. Firing overarm fastballs and slithery, if occasionally errant, sliders, the reliever quickly retired the Tigers on an easy grounder and a fly to left. In the fifth inning he walked two men but left them stranded. He gave up only one hit, a harmless double in the sixth, and was taken out of the game in the seventh with 2⅔ scoreless innings to his credit. By then the Yanks had six runs of their own. They went on to win, giving Colavito, who ranks 15th among the all-time home-run hitters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Nobody Knocks the Rock | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

Patty Aspinall, 14-year-old Indianapolis minnow, set a new U. S. record for the 220-yd. breast stroke - 3 min., 7.8 sec., 1.2 sec. better than the mark set last summer by Japanese Fujiko Katsutani of Honolulu. Little Patty used the exhausting butterfly stroke (an overarm stroke as in the crawl, with both arms moving together) for the full 220 yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pool Sharks | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...composed of Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Navy, and Pennsylvania. The rules of the league--and they are adhered to throughout the East--provide for nine different events. These are the 220, 50, 100, 440, and 400-yard relay free-style races (free-style always turns out to be an overarm crawl), a 150-yard backstroke, race, a 200 yard breastroke race, a 300-yard medley relay comprising three 100's of backstroke, breastroke, and free-style respectively, and the dive...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak h, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

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