Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privately owned educational institution, today is spread for the cause of better indoor athletic facilities. That this cause is among the worthiest no visitor to Hemenway will deny. And even an athletic agnostic will be tempted to dig into his pockets if he has ever attempted to take a swim in the so called Big Tree...
Safety. Hurricanes, electric storms, sudden ground squalls are their enemies. Commander Rosendahl, survivor the Shenandoah smash (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) believes that the Los Angeles, once in the air, can survive far heavier storms than he permits her to rush. Perhaps, when dirigibles are enlarged, perfected, they will swim the heaviest storms that winds can blow. Helium gas, which fills the bag, will not burn, cannot explode...
From Governor Young came word to cease firing, except on any fugitives trying to scale the walls or swim the river. At midnight, having meantime ordered the guard doubled at California's other big "pen," San Quentin, Governor Young reached Folsom in person and learned how things stood. A mass attack by 700 troopers, preceded by tanks, was planned for the next morning...
...conscious and then fell into stupor for two hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...
...Metabel to be married in. The little god of good humor advised her to go back to Early; he showed her the road. "All summer long the valleys around Early are as green as the sea. But in the autumn they are like yellow pools; over them the clouds swim slowly in the sun, trailing their cold blue shadows across the hills...