Word: swam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leander swam the Hellespont because Hero was waiting on the other bank. Walker swam Lake Erie because moron marathons have fired the public fancy...
Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam the English Channel from Dover to Calais. (Although the distance was only 22.5 miles as the crow flies, he swam approximately 56 miles miles.) Sullivan, 31, made his first unsuccessful attempt to swim the channel ten years ago and has made five other unsuccessful attempts since then...
...professed entire ignorance of all that had occurred, saying that the last event of which he had any recollection was being in the water. In the light of subsequent developments it seems fairly certain that the time referred to was on the night of his disappearance when he swam up the Charles river from Weld boathouse after leaving his clothes on the float. Physicians are of the opinion that Clapp had been suffering from amnesia, a disease which affects the brain in such a way as to render the memory a total blank, and this explanation seems sufficient to account...
...usually associated with girls in an international indoor pastime rather than in outdoor sports. Miss Aileen Riggin has altered the conception by winning the all-around senior aquatic championship of the country for women. In the past season she won the fancy diving championship (from a four-foot board), swam on the winning 400-yard relay team, and was runner up in fancy diving from a ten-foot board, and the free style swim at 100, 220 and 500 yards, the back stroke at 150 yards, and was third in the 50-yard free style. She is 16 years...
Clapp had been accustomed to go swimming with his friend Roger Pierce 1G., but on Wednesday he started from the float alone, swam through the right hand arch of Anderson Bridge and up beyond the Newell boat house. He was last seen in the water by W. C. Ladd '26 near the Brighton side of the river below the boat house. No other sign of Clapp had been found until late yesterday afternoon when it developed that James Milliken, caretaker of the Cambridge boat house, had seen a swimmer in a blue bathing suit climb up on the opposite bank...