Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bates went from England to Spain, settled among fishermen in a coastal village. The people, whom he loved, called him El Fantastico because of his incredible energy: he slept only four hours a night, and so that his sleep might be deep, went for a long swim or wrestled in the afternoon. He organized the fishermen into unions...
...high-board event for the first time this year. Ned Goldwasser, Harley and Lonnie Stowell, Fred Griffin, and Johnny Quinlan will do all the free-style sprinting while Eric Cutler, Frannie Powers, Bob White, and Ed Hewitt will do the distance work. Art Bosworth and Craig Moore will swim the backstroke events...
...raft capacity: 40 persons), the Cavalier had none. When she began to sink, her eight passengers, her five crew members had to take to the water, hanging to six or seven buoyant seat packs, which had not been issued until after the ship struck. One man passenger, unable to swim, was struck by wreckage as he left the ship, and drowned. A steward, held in the terrified ring where the survivors hung around their seat cushions, finally lost his hold and was drowned...
Craig Moore's 1:47.9 victory in the 150 yard backstroke indicates that dorsal ace Art Bosworth has a good partner to work with. Bosworth's contribution to the Crimson score Saturday was limited to a second in the century, won by Frannie Powers in 55.7. Bosworth did not swim in the medley either, but Moore, Kraus, and Griffin won the event...
Despite the clamor, Premier Edouard Daladier's Cabinet decided to adhere to strict nonintervention, keep the border sealed, let the Spanish Loyalists sink or swim on their own. All week their boat sank lower in the water. An army man himself, for nearly three years Minister of National Defense (a job he still holds as Premier). M. Daladier could scarcely have failed to realize the dangers of letting a puppet of Italy and Germany take over all Spain. It was reported that he wanted to help the Loyalists, but French diplomacy was again stymied, as it had been when...