Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Events scheduled are: 50-yard free style, back stroke, and breast stroke, 100-yard free style, 200-yard free style, 150-yard medley relay, and 200-yard free style relay...
...again a strong contender for the A.A.U. outdoor meet in San Diego next month, are: ex-Navy man Smith, who last week beat Johnny Weismuller's U.S. 100-meter long course record with a 57.7; Ralph Wright, ex-marine who bettered the Olympic 200-meter long course breast stroke mark with a 2:42.3; and Harry Holiday, ex-Michigan star, who beat the U.S. 300-meter individual medley record with...
...group are eight men from last year's Varsity, and Coach Vaughan says that several of the newcomers are definitely Varsity material. Vaughan does not think that the men are just out for swimming to keep cool. He says, "They really want to swim and learn to better their stroke...
...Washington, B.C., UNRRA Chief Fiorello H. LaGuardia, with a sudden and acute stroke of his bristling pen, halted all but emergency shipments to China...
When his name was published, Msgr. Pucci sat down to write a letter, protesting his innocence, to Giornale d'ltalia. A few hours later he had what was announced as a stroke. Vatican observers predicted a prolonged, diplomatic illness...