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Easily the best race of the evening was swum by "Big John" Eusden in the 50 yard free style. Eusden turned in a time of 24.8 seconds, which represents a great improvement on the 50 yard race that he swam last Saturday night against the Alumni...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: VARSITY MERMENSWAMP BOILERMAKERS 52 TO 23 | 12/18/1941 | See Source »

...Hutter, Hutter, Hutter all the way, as the greatest of Harvard swimmers, now nearly three years out of intercollegiate competition, took first place in the 50 and 100 yard free style for a total of 10 points and swam the 50 in 24.0 seconds, a great time in any meet...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Indian Skaters Hand Crimson Six First Defeat, 4 to 3; Hutter Leads Alumni to Victory Over Varsity Mermen | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...Perry, leading 100-yard man, never swam in competition before. Dick Holland, Bill Prier, and Dick Everett head the sprinting field with Perry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Natators Train For Engineers | 12/6/1941 | See Source »

General Griswold's first thrust was swift. While his fast-moving troops headed east, he dispatched his bombers, "smashed" every bridge across the Pee Dee. The Blues crossed anyhow. A cavalry outfit swam the Pee Dee. Others crossed by pontoons flung across the stream and by the bridges themselves, which became usable again after "repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Battle of the Carolinas | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Critic. Near Boise, Idaho, a duck hunter shot & shot, missed & missed. Finally his sympathetic dog swam out and fetched him a decoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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