Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Summons. On the stroke of 6 o'clock, the President acted. After talking briefly to all five men, he summoned Ben Fairless to his office alone and told him, in the blunt terms of a schoolmaster settling a schoolyard fight, that he wanted the strike stopped...
Died. George J. ("Slim") Summerville, 51, bulb-nosed, sleepy-eyed, under-chinned veteran comedian who began as a pie-throwing Keystone Kop in Mack Sennett slapstick; of a stroke; in Laguna Beach, Calif...
Year's lowest 18-hole stroke average: Byron Nelson's 68.33, good for 19 pro golf tourney wins and an unprecedented $66,600 in war-bond prizes (an A.P. poll named him "athlete of the year" over the Army's Fullback Doc Blanchard and Detroit's 25-game-winning Pitcher Hal Newhouser...
Jerry German will start in the 220 and the 100 yard races; Frank Krayer will do the backstroke; and Gulio Vielman will swim the breast stroke events. Steffens and Tom Droham are scheduled to do the diving, and Ted Norris will compete in the 440. Starters in the other events have not yet been decided...
...sound, but I think there has been weakness in its application." When the school got a new swimming pool in 1934 Cora was 63 but she promptly learned how to swim, and took over the girls' swimming classes. Last week she was teaching some beginners the side stroke. Two years ago, Cora added a course in aeronautics, taught it herself...