Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bucktoothed, towheaded 11-year-old named Mary Hoerger won the springboard diving championship. Powerful Lenore Right of Homestead, Pa., fastest woman swimmer in the U. S.. broke two world records (mile and 880-yd. freestyle). Georgia Coleman, Olympic springboard diving champion in 1932, was on the sidelines, judging, as was the girl who swam across the English Channel in 1926, Gertrude Ederle. To take the place...
Newscameramen in Toledo last week busily snapped pictures of smiling young ladies assuming graceful poses on a swing, a springboard, a seesaw. One view showed the swing's platform sagging under the weight of three girls. In another a seesaw was seen bending under the weight of a girl at each end. Another showed a girl poised near the tip of a bending springboard. The equipment came in for more attention than the posers because platform, seesaw and springboard were all made of glass. This flexible, resilient glass, called "tempered glass'' by its U. S. manufacturer, Libbey...
...Union Bag's assets more than one-half is President Alexander Calder, known to his subordinates as "Sandy," though greying hair reveals his 50 years. As a Union Bag salesman, not long out of St. Lawrence University, he bagged the Woolworth 5?-&-10? stores account, which was a springboard to a vice-presidency. Boardchairman and one of Union Bag's big stockholders is old Philanthropist August Heckscher...
...multiplied Plymouth's sales by five is one of the few crack motormen who did not rise from the bench. Mr. Hutchinson is primarily a financial man, having raised the money to keep old Maxwell Motor alive when Walter P. Chrysler was fashioning that company into a personal springboard...
...meter free style: Olive McKean 1-mi. free style: Lenore Kight 3-meter springboard diving: Katherine Rawls 220-yd. backstroke: Alice Bridges 440-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 880-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 220-yd. breast stroke: Ann Govednik Platform diving: Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-meter medley: Katherine Rawls