Word: swam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even swimming pools filled with filtered, chlorinated water are not too safe. For seven years Dr. J. Roswell Gallagher kept track of boys who swam and those who didn't in the Phillips Academy pool at Andover, Mass. Number of hospital admissions for respiratory tract infections was 14% greater among the swimmers, he reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Acute sinusitis was almost twice as high; mumps and measles spread more rapidly among the swimmers. But the total number of days spent in the hospital was about the same for swimmers and nonswimmers: the boys who didn...
...noon came, an assault boat with a few steel-helmeted Irgunists ventured toward the beach, and despite Haganah fire set up a small beachhead. But when Haganah turned mortar fire on the Altalena, and smoke began to pour out amidships, the rest of the Irgunists jumped over the sides, swam for shore...
...paintings and drawings, done on the Riviera in 1946, had none of the nightmare violence that characterized Picasso's wartime work. Goats, nymphs, centaurs, children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool color, sang and played pipes, swam, fished, ate dinner and slept under the trees. The one warlike note was a comic-strip series of sketches showing a duel between centaurs, which ended with the loser crumpled across a broken arrow and the horned winner looking downcast. The figures were almost all distorted, but never cruelly so. The surprising twists...
...life indicates no ups & downs-only a remorseless, meticulous line of continuity. Editor Runes has printed only a handful of Edison's daily records (along with many of his articles and public statements), but they are enough to show what a strange assortment of things swam in the sea of cool equanimity that was Edison's mind...
...cane-mangler) who built the Baldwin dynasty. He went partners with Sam Alexander, son of another missionary. At a cost of $80,000 and harrowing effort, Henry built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank, he once swam a flooded gulch in order to get to church. Through such God-fearing boldness, coupled with Yankee-trader shrewdness, the business prospered, became one of the "Big Five"* which reach across the biggest part of Hawaii's economy...