Word: swam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gorman, who took the Eastern Intercollegiate 440-yard swim in 1947, has won his letter for the past two years and was one of the leading point makers on Hal Ulen's squad this winter. A prop school star and captain at the Shaker Heights High School, Gorman, who swam 220's this year until the E.LL meet last week, left College in the middle of the 1946 season to serve in the Navy. Last week he took third in the Eastern 440 championships...
Only in the quartermile freestyle does there seem any hope of home triumphs. Jerry Gorman, winner of last year's title, and Ted Norris, undefeated until he swam an off-form race last week, carry the sole hopes here. If Norris can swim a really good race, he may well...
...nights earlier, Michigan's swimming team swam rings around Ohio State, which had won 19 straight meets. Michigan's hockey team, about the best in college competition, won two more games last week to make the record; won 18, lost 2, tied...
...those who have established his hero as a "disembodied brain," he has exhumed nothing that resembles flesh & blood. Madison was a prodigious worker, a great student of government and one of the best-read men of his time. But most readers will find him a pretty cold fish who swam best in muddy political waters. Brant insists that "outside of Congress ... he was known for his racy conversational skill, ribald wit and zest for salacious stories." Nothing will seem more unlikely to readers of James Madison...
...Pond Run Farm" near New Richmond, Ohio, roly-poly John William Haussermann packed his bags. He put in some of his favorite blue suits, a clutch of flashy ties and plenty of cigars. Then he kissed his wife goodbye, took a last look at the Ohio River, where he swam as a boy, and drove into town to take the train. Last week, at 80, the gold king of the Philippines was on his way back to the islands to rebuild his war-shattered empire...