Word: strokings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...language of mythology, when one of God's creatures is tempted by the Devil, God Himself is thereby given the opportunity to recreate the World. By the stroke of the Adversary's trident, all the fountains of the great deep are broken up. The Devil's intervention has accomplished that transition from Yin [passivity] to Yang [creativity] . . . for which God has been yearning ever since His Yin-state became complete, but which it was impossible for God to accomplish by Himself, out of His own perfection. And the Devil has done more for God than this...
DeForest's performance not only set the pace in the 220 and 100 yard free-styles and the 150-yard breast stroke, but he didn't climb out of the water once in the three tries without engraving a Penn record in the scorebook...
Chuck Hoelzer, beginning with a margin to make up, climbed steadily for 200-yards of butterflying to win the breast stroke. Jerry Gorman led his quarter mile race by a reach at the flags, but to maintain his lead he had to swim a flat minute for the first 100 yards...
...Paul Killoran were also instrumental in the upset, Fox taking first in the 50, Killoran in the 100, and both doing yeoman service in the final crucial 400-yard freestyle relay. Only other Crimson winner was Larry Ward, who left the rest behind in the 200-yard breast stroke...
Puritan Julio Vielman turned in one of the best individual times of the evening, touching the tiles in 32.8 in the 50-yard breast stroke event...