Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called " monkey-gland man" (TIME, July 30). One Armstrong Perry,-* agitated by "the doubts expressed by physicians before and after Voronoff's demonstration at Columbia University" and by "the flippant comments of unthinking critics," journeyed to Paris and to the gate of "the restful garden in which goldfish swim in transparent waters under rose bushes and leafy trees." He found Dr. Voronoff to be "tall, slender, dark, magnetic." Said the Doctor: "You should understand that every physician attends school for many years. His professors teach him that such and such things are facts. When another physician claims to have...
Group meetings will be held twice each week in the Church House of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church preceded by a swim and a luncheon. Opportunity will be afforded to meet and listen to some of the foremost social and religious leaders in America...
Lacrosse has begun, with men reporting daily to Coach Herbert. Golf this year will be restricted to those Freshmen who are selected to compose the first squad. Swimming will be continued for those men who have not yet learned to swim. Monday, March 31, has been set as the day when Freshmen taking courses in the Military Science Department of the University may resume their equitation exercise. Spring football will begin shortly after the spring recess, and Freshmen who intend becoming candidates for the University team may elect that sport during the three weeks it will continue...
...instance a young man who could hardly keep his feet if he was even slightly pushed, has taken up boxing under Coach Shevlin, and has become so proficient that he is entered for the University tournament in the near future. Another man with one leg learned to swim in a single lesson. These are but a few of a series of results attained from a prescribed set of exercises...
...swim: Andrew Charlton, Australian, aged 16, 10 min. 51 4/5 sec., in Sydney...