Word: swam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bicycle Pedals. In one trial heat early in the meet, he swam the 1,500 meters (just under a mile) in 18 min. 19 sec., beating the previous world's record by more than a half-minute. That night, figuring that he would surely break the records for 800 and 1,000 meters on his way to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter final, dockers were ready to time him at those distances. But it was a teammate, Shiro Hashizume, who was ahead at 800 and 1,000 meters, and who set the new world marks. Then...
Suits Are for Practice. Shirley May once swam 33 miles in Michigan's Lake St. Clair in 24½ hours. Last year she wound up tenth in the twelve-mile Lake George race, and since she was the only woman who ever finished that grueling event, she was given a trophy. Three weeks ago, as a warm-up for the Channel, she swam 14 miles from Manhattan's Battery to Coney Island, going a mile or more out of her way to avoid dirty water from a sewer...
...swam back to the bridge and hung on to one of the supports until police pulled him up. A Metropolitan District Commission launch arrived just after the rescue was effected...
...turret. The Amethyst ran up two white flags in clear token of surrender. But the shelling continued. The stricken captain ordered Chief Boatswain's Mate David Heath and 59 others, including the wounded, to abandon ship. Some reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine-gunned and shelled us. We lost a couple of chaps that way." With the help of the Amethyst's Chinese mess boy as interpreter, most of the fugitives made it to the railroad, arrived...
After Frankie's mother died in 1916, father was married to Amelia Kien. Times were better. The family moved into a better house and Frankie led a pleasant life. His stepmother and sister Nora were devoted to him. He swam in Lake Washington, tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High...