Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard breast stroke--won by Warren N. Bixby, Jr. (H); second, Allan Gilliman (H); third, Burnays...
...yard back stroke--won by Orrin C. Keller (H); second, Colles C. Stowell (H); third, Morrow...
...findings are soon to be published in full. . . . According to these results the shaving problems of different individuals vary in character, but correct technics benefit all shavers. These include the taking of sufficient time for facial preparation before shaving (two minutes is the minimum time . . . ); shaving with a slanting stroke as far as possible; mixing of a little soap with latherless cream if the latter is the medium preferred by the shaver; shaving with the blade tilted toward the face when the blade is new and/or sharp to make a smaller angle with the skin and thus to minimize skin...
...lettermen who form the nucleus of this year's squad are fortunately spread over a wide field. In the back stroke, there is Captain Bob Fisher and Dick Dorr. The free style division should be exceptionally strong with the return of John Colony, Bob Haskatt, Bill How, and Art Jameson...
...Brache. Defiantly Brache resigned, stayed safely in Washington. Trujillo hinted that he might take his vacation, passing on the power to his brother Virgilio and to his No. 1 toady, Vice President Peynado, but he might take it on his hacienda, Fundacion, just outside the capital. In a superb stroke of dictating, he ordered through the puppet Assembly a resolution calling on him please not to leave the Dominican Republic. Next day he topped this by having himself recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize "because of his Pacifist actions...