Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislature, extended state income taxes to take in wage earners making as little as $14 a week, and, perhaps most injudiciously, boosted the state levy on whisky. Rumbled one Kentucky politician: "Not many people would walk out in the yard to vote for anybody, but they'd swim the Ohio to vote against somebody. This time, they came out to get Happy...
Died. Sir Francis Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire, 65, Australian industrialist-philanthropist and famed swim star who represented his country in three Olympic Games (1908, 1920, 1924), won more than 200 championship titles, set eight world records; in Melbourne...
...Dartmouth system prescribes that a student must pass a rope climb, a standing broad jump, a speed-agility obstacle test, and a swim test within a narrowly prescribed time limit, as well as fulfilling certain other minimum standards...
Everyone, for example, must swim 50 yards under 60 seconds. On the basis of his total score, each student is rated on "A", "B", or "C". The "A" may drop physical training, the "B" may select his sport, and the "C" is assigned to some exercise by the Physical Department...
...standards for an "A" rank are fairly high, requiring, for instance, a 7 foot, 10 inch standing broad jump, and a 50 yard swim under 35 seconds...