Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Hunt's direction, over 40 Somerville and Cambridge youths, ranging in age from seven to 14, whose chief sport had been breaking window's and trampling flower beds, today swim in the I.A.B. pool and hike through the Blue Hills...
...penny a suit. To cut distribution costs, the company used no middlemen. And to conform with local mores, Jantzen's men's suits always came with detachable tops. President Zehntbauer established mills and licensed plants around the world to make his suits, smartly got his swim suits promoted far & wide by celebrities and in aquatic shows...
...reach the top in the Philippines who is not of the gentry. A blunt, impetuous man who often acts before he thinks, Magsaysay has by no means yet mastered the coral-sharp reefs of Filipino politics, nor is he the parliamentary equal of many of the barracudas who swim in both Filipino parties...
...their health. George Washington preferred riding. Jefferson detested all exercise, relaxed with his violin. Theodore Roosevelt, the most active President, was an enthusiastic wrestler, jujitsu expert, big-game hunter, tennist, horseman and boxer. One of his favorite forms of exercise was point-to-point hiking, which sometimes involved swimming Rock Creek or the Potomac River. "If we swam the Potomac," T.R. recalled in his autobiography, "we usually took off our clothes. I remember one such occasion when the French ambassador, Jusserand . . . was along, and, just as we were about to get in to swim, somebody said, 'Mr. Ambassador...
...Barbados was primitive, but no one. least of all a boy. could call it dull. There were playmates with such names as Trumper. Po King and Boy Blue. There was an occasional flood that carried away the shacks of the natives. There was the great blue sea to swim in, the teachers at school ever ready to cane the inattentive, the vigorous back-fence give & take between parents and neighbors...