Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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League Standards High Craig Moore is developing well for the No. 2 back stroke berth, while Collie Stowell is attempting to make his fine stroke produce more speed. Max Kraus tops the weak breast stroke department, with Jack Waldron and veteran Phil Walker batting for the second position...
There will be eight events in the meets this year, including the 50-yard free style swim; 200-yard free style swim; required dives; 100-yard breast stroke swim; 100-yard back stroke swim; 100-yard free style swim; optional dives; and 200-yard relay race...
Just before the stroke of twelve one night last week, squadrons of steel-helmeted, fully-armed troops and blue-caped policemen marched from their barracks to strategic spots in Paris and its suburbs. A battalion of mounted machine gunners clattered through the deserted streets to the Communist-populated workers' suburbs of Saint-Denis and Belleville, where they took up positions around the huge gas tanks, water reservoirs and electric plants which supply the capital. Bands of Mobile Guards and policemen began to patrol the Paris streets. An infantry company clumped to the City Hall, nine truckloads of troops surrounded...
Worthy of record in Europe last week were: 1) an exhibition that proved a point; 2) a burst of indignation; 3) an extraordinary stroke of intolerance...
...long, shiny things hanging from the roofs of the classroom buildings. Harvard Hall has the undisputed blue-ribbon icicle of the Yard. It measures a good three feet from tip to tip, and tapers from a saucer-like beginning down to a needle-sharp nonentity. At precisely the stroke of eleven o'clock this morning, a neighbor of this glistening giant gave one sickening shudder and came crashing earthward among the terrified students of "Shakespeare complete" as they elbowed their way into the Hall. Pale, twitching faces gratefully expressed the blessings of the miracle of deliverance, and witnesses...