Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Splash! Yusa, Arai, Taguchi, Fick & Csik were in the pool. The wary Japanese watched Fick. Wary Fick watched the Japanese. Skinny Csik watched no one, kept on swimming. When the race was over, Fick and the Japanese stopped looking at each other, looked at Csik. He was the winner. Said Swimmer Fick to Swimmer Csik: "It's good I got third, at least." He was wrong again. In the confusion at the finish, judges had, perhaps erroneously, placed Fick sixth, behind not only Yusa, Arai and Taguchi but even German Helmuth Fischer...
...unique generosity of the Arlington Park Jockey Club Chicago is indebted, not to the desire of its members to make a social splash, but, indirectly, to Racketeer Al Capone. Arlington Park was built in 1927, the year Illinois racing was legalized, by a California promoter named H. D. ("Curly") Brown. It lost money. In 1929 Capone offered to buy the track for $1,500,000. Promoter Brown jumped at the offer. Because the deal might well have meant the end of Illinois horse racing, Mr. Hertz, whose Reigh Count had won the Kentucky Derby in 1928, asked him to call...
CHARLES COULSON RICH-John Henry Evans-Macmillan ($3.50). Of all the restless religious sects spawned in the U. S., Mormonism went furthest, made the biggest splash. Nowadays as settled and respectable as any other church, in its early years it roused its neighbors to a fury of apprehensive persecution, even threw a scare into the U. S. Government. Present-day "Gentiles" know little of Mormon history, few Mormon heroes except Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. After reading Charles Coulson Rich they could add another name to their list of Latter-day Saints, many an historical fact to a little-known...
Twelve crews will splash away from the starting line Saturday; Tech will enter an eight in the Varsity, Jayvee, Varsity Fifty, and Freshman classes and the Tiger will also take the water in all four. Except for the fifties, all races will be over the 1 3/4 mile course. The first race will be between te Yearlng boats and is scheduled to begin at 3.30 o'clock. Following them come the Varsity fifties at 4:30 o'clock and a half an hour later the Jayvees. The big race of the afternoon will climax as well as close the regatta...
College girls will splash gracefully alongside the Crimson mermen next Saturday night when Coach Hal Ulen directs, a water carnival in the Indoor Athletic Building for the benefit of the Olympic Fund. Four girls' colleges have been invited to send relay teams, and the best New England swimmers will be drawn from every quarter to offer a varied program...