Word: swims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There follow in rapid succession the Vale of Tempe, the summit of Parnassus, scaling the Acropolis at midnight, wooing the Maidens of the Porch by Attic moonlight, swimming the Hellespont, climbing Stromboli and Vesuvius, trying to swim from whirling Charybdis to rocky Scylla, singing "Funiculi, Funicula" in the Blue Grotto to an English girl with an Alice-blue Rolls-Royce, climbing Aetna, playing Ulysses ("handsome, heaven-sent Greek") to a 65-year-old bobbed grandmother's Calypso, and reading "The Return of Ulysses" at Ithaca, having completed what was begun, a trip in the wandering wake of Ulysses doing...
Over 75 entries have been attracted by the five events open to individuals, the 50 yard free style event, the 200 free style, the 100 yard back stroke race, the fancy dive, and the beginners race. This last event is open only to men who have learned to swim this year...
...original marine distress signal was "C Q D" ("Come Quick Danger"). This was replaced by the simplest and most unmistakable code letters "S O S " (. . . . - - - . .). To these three letters unofficial meanings have been fitted without number: "Save Our Ship," "Send Out Ships," "Save Our Souls," "Sink Or Swim...
...meet will be featured by six separate events including fancy diving, 50-yard free style, 200-yard free style, 100-yard back stroke, 100-yard relay, and a beginners race. The beginners race is open only to students who have learned to swim this year...
Standing on the shore, Commander de Pinedo watched his two globe-trotting comrades dive from the plane and swim to safety. But soon the Santa Maria was a charred mass of wire and twisted metal. The heavy engine plunged hissing from its supports into 60 feet of water. Sick at heart, Commander de Pinedo cabled Premier Mussolini for another plane in which to carry on, for the glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland...