Word: swam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thereupon Captain Vaughn jumped in, swam ashore with the young woman and with difficulty persuaded a constable to take charge of her. Seven months later, the police handed Captain Vaughn a bill for her maintenance. She was his responsibility, said they. He paid the bills for a while, but finally decided the line was responsible and directed that they be sent to P.A.A. headquarters. From P.A.A. auditors to Captain Vaughn in Miami, nevertheless, went the latest bill for $3.18, Mexican...
...school as well as the school paper. After two years on the New York Sun, Adler went to Columbia, finished the four-year course in three as top man in his class. At that time a graduate of Columbia had to be able to swim. Adler neither swam nor learned to swim. He got no degree until he had taught at Columbia for six years, finally taking a Ph.D. in Psychology...
...without a breath--in other words, a sprint turn. The two dug water like 50-men for the last half-lap, and their leading arms came over for the final stroke together. But Choutean's hand slid under the line first, ending a superb contest in which both competitions swam their all-time fastest quarter-mile...
Coach Bob Kiphuth can point to four 100-yard sprinters who together broke the world's record for the 400 relay, to a pair of 50 men better than our best, to two backstrokers as good as and better than Art Bosworth. Still, on Saturday Rick Cutler swam his best 220, Bosworth his best dorsal 150, and George Dana chalked up his best total this year. And Jim Curwen showed that he is back to his Sophomore year All-American team form, in spite of one unlucky turn...
...summer, between the bridges of the canal behind the college, the silhouetted bowler hats of the proctors converging from each side; and the amazement of a local Ariadne deserted on the bank as I took unobtrusively to the waters which drowned love. It was better, I reflected as I swam away, that she should be astonished than that we should be surprised...