Word: overarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
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