Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the Munson liner Munargo anchors outside the bar-guarded harbor and the stubby tender puts out from town with homegoers, people on shore feel sorry for people on the tender. People on the tender feel sorry for themselves. They yearn, usually, for "just one more cocktail, one last swim...
Eleven Freshmen are color blind, 91 are unable to swim, and 297 wear glasses. A distinction is made, however, between men who wear glasses constantly, for reading, and for distance vision. The latter number 294, doubling the number who wear them constantly...
Messenger George V. Anderson of Los Angeles, rushing at 60 miles an hour to deliver swim photographs to local papers, mashed himself against a truck; died...
...about 17 per cent of the class, chose the Squash Courts as their field of activity, while 130 swim regularly at the Big Tree Pool. Winter Crew has attracted 14 per cent of the first year men, and 10 per cent have elected Basketball...
...families more plentifully than ever on the march; destroying crops and herbage; preyed on by throngs of bigger beasts. They never hesitate,moving on (like Theodore Roosevelt and his children**) over every obstacle, lake, river, mountain, until they reach the sea. Here their blind instinct persists and out they swim, still in the line of the migration, until the last one is drowned. Only a few will have stayed behind, hibernating or lacking true lemming instinct, or perhaps so hardy that they have not felt the need for a more congenial home. These will be progenitors of new millions...