Word: swum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Pool, the Bronx, Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, 30, widow, kept her 240 Ibs. afloat for 54 hours, 28 minutes. Then she collapsed, sank in three feet of water, and two men grabbed her out of the pool. She had swum for a longer time than any man or woman in the history of the world. Her legs and arms were swollen, her skin very tender...
...said they saw her land or start or who went with her in little boats. Miss Gleitz said she knew one Englishman had seen her do it. He was a young boy. She described him, but he couldn't be found. Last year Miss Gleitz said she had swum the English Channel but refused to put her statement in an affidavit...
...flames reached Captain van Schaick but they did not kill him. He beached his burning boat 45 minutes after he had taken her out into the East River. Not quite 500 out of his 1,400 passengers were still alive; some of these had swum to safety...
...hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...
...cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional haze, there may have swum before minds in that cheering, singing crowd a vision of "the good old days"?days that seemed not so good when they were...