Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without warning the sampan struck a log, overturned in half a twinkling. The policemen, both unable to swim, sank...
...they don't get them, the way things are now. The Government takes and trains thousands of boys every summer at citizens' training camps free. Any boy can go there and learn to hike, camp, swim and shoot. They are shown how to take care of themselves in the outdoors...
Died. Bobby Leach, 64, English-born "daredevil artist," famed for his successful trip over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel (1911); at Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr. Leach failed in an attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara last fall. His death resulted when he slipped upon a bit of orange peel, broke his leg, and underwent a subsequently fatal amputation...
...Monterey, Calif., a 30-ton whale rolled, nuzzled, lolloped and spouted about the municipal pier; tried to swim between narrow piles; wedged, thrashed, spumed, gurgled, choked to death...
...terror to reader or audience; the lights of a pitching steamer appear and on the instant a grinding crash is heard; the lights shudder, become fixed. For a moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine on the face of Don Juan* as he leaps overboard to swim ashore. There is dialog in the scene also, but it is negligible. A triumph of stagecraft has been achieved with a few lights and a howling siren. A poet's art is applied to mechanism...