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...Adolph Kiefer of Chicago, ablest backstroke swimmer in the U. S., won the 150-yd. dash by half the length of the pool, without hurrying broke his own world's record by 3 sec., described his performance into a microphone before getting out of the water...
...indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost this title to 13-year-old Marjorie Gestring of Los Angeles, replaced it with the 100-yd. free-style championship, in which she just nosed out Swimmer Petty. The victory helped console her for a misfortune earlier in the week. While practicing, Claudia Eckert got a telegram which said that she had missed winning $600 by not being present at a cinemansion Bank Night...
...prediction that the water-level at their junction might rise as high as 34 ft.-close to the record set by the disastrous flood of 1907. Twenty-four hours later the junction stood at an all-time high of 48 ft., and in the Golden Triangle a swimmer could not touch bottom...
...that limb,--a pretty good sized one about a hundred and twenty-five years old, and an enormous one about twenty years old; and he knew the limb wouldn't hold. So down into the water he went to try swimming across. Sturdily, since he was a good swimmer with long staying power, he dog-paddled along. Suddenly, he looked to his right, and there rushing down on him was a great big stick of timber. In large, red letters on the side was the label, "Dictatorial Rowers of the President over All Foreign Trade". If another log, called "Export...
Sixty million years ago-the dawn of their Age-Titanoides was the biggest of mammals, about the size of a polar bear. Stout, thick-legged, big-tailed, weighing half a ton, probably a fine swimmer, Titanoides liked swamps, crushed lush water plants in his none too capable teeth. Prior to 1932 the only evidence of him was a single jawbone. Then Bryan Patterson of the Field Museum found three skeletons, two fragmentary, one almost complete, near Grand Junction, Colo. The excellent specimen put on show in Chicago last week is the only one of Titanoides visible...