Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Morris has shown rapid improvement in the breast stroke, particularly in recent practice sessions...
...Colles Stowell, who performed the amazing feat of taking three first places, Eliot ran up a huge total in first and second places. Stowell took firsts in the 50-yard free-style, the 100 yard free-style, and the back stroke...
Pinto of Dudley took the individual scoring honors for the meet with firsts in the back stroke and the 200-yard free-style. Conger of Kirkland won the 50-yard free style and took second in the 100-yard race...
Eliot beat Lowell 32 to 26 and swamped Adams 41 to 19. The powerful Elephants were led by Ben Wilcox, who took a first place in the breast stroke and a second in the 200-yard free-style. Lowell won over Adams...
When the late Jay Gould, maker and breaker of railroads, lay dying, his devoted daughter Helen, then 24, was a constant attendant at his bedside. Last week at Roxbury, N. Y., Jay Gould's birthplace, she died, after a stroke, an extraordinary daughter of an extraordinary father, of an extraordinary family...