Word: swimming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have noticed that everyone, depending on where they're living or where their surnames fit into the alphabet, has been scheduled to take a swimming test. Although there is no physical education requirement at Harvard, you have to prove that you can swim a couple of laps in the Harvard of Radcliffe pool to get your piece of paper four years later...
...voyage in 1912. In his memory, his mother erected a library--the major architectural monstrocity that stands in the Yard and the worst place in which to study in the University. But a stipulation in her contract with Harvard required that every Harvard undergraduate degree recipient know how to swim. ('Cliffe women, of course receive Harvard degrees.) And if you don't know how to swim when you get here, they'll try to make you learn. If you do know how when you reach Cambridge, take the test Freshman Week. If you don't, you'll be receiving little...
...Argo were the head, limbs, trunk of a creature, a living thing larger than ourselves,...a thing puzzling out its nature, its swim through process...
...this time concentrating on the area to the south and southwest of the capital. Village after village was held briefly, then abandoned after air strikes and artillery duels. For the government forces, disaster follows disaster. When Kompong Kantuot near Phnom-Penh was abandoned, the government troops were forced to swim the Thnot River because insurgents had blown the bridges. Some of the soldiers-boys aged twelve to 15-drowned. Those who escaped heard others, left behind and afraid to swim, weeping in fear and despair...
...long time. Suddenly I realized the race was over, and that we were going the wrong way. But you know what happens when you drop your oar? It may throw you out of the boat. Well, finally I did drop my oar, and I've been trying to swim to shore ever since-through a lot of muck...