Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swimming coach Hal Ulen is somewhat of the same opinion, although he admits telegraphic swimming meets have been successful elsewhere. "We like to swim against actual men," he said, "not just marks...
...lamprey's chief weakness is its breeding system; the adults (up to 2 ft. long) swim up rivers in early spring to spawn. The young lampreys, which look like minute worms, bury themselves in mud and lead a wormlike life, eating microorganisms. After five years of this, when they are 7 in. long, they develop toothy suckers and drift downstream to hunt fish in the lake...
Instead orf merely passing a step test as Crimson freshmen must, Yale's incoming class is subjected to physical fitness teams, which require proficiency in a standing broad jump (86 inches), push ups (25), sit ups (50), and chins (8). Also the Eli must swim twice the distance (100 yards) Harvard freshmen...
...Arden, Averell learned to shoot, swim, row. ride and race trotters (he later switched to polo because of a strange allergy to horses, which affected him when he rode behind them, but not when he rode on them). In winter the family retired to a big town house on 55th Street in Manhattan, where Averell fashionably attended Craigie School and Miss Dodson's dancing class, and became a cadet in the Knickerbocker Greys. He saw the world as a prince might see it, from his father's private railroad car, from the family's yacht and from...
There is also a good deal of other assorted information, some fascinating, some obvious. Cowboys sometimes found it difficult to get about 3,000 cows to swim a river. Steak was cheap (5? a pound). The Colt six-gun was invented by Samuel Colt. Bullwhackers had deplorable vocabularies. All this may be interesting. But a thought, as troublesome as Geronimo, persists in the reader's mind that the cowboy is perhaps best left as myth. William MacLeod Raine and Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford (whom the authors call a "second-rate practitioner"), or even Zane Grey, that old rider...