Word: swum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lush Life. Jake Kramer's reward for being champion is the circus-performer's life of the big-time tennis circuit. He is dined, lunched, swum and bathroomed by the rich-and he doesn't particularly like it, but considers it part of the racket. On the West Coast, he gets invitations to visit tennis-minded movie stars, but almost invariably turns them down. "They always want to play tennis," he says, "and with a few exceptions they can't play tennis ... so you have a lousy time...
...every wave seems to be flinging a challenge at him. In 1937 Tom, who is a strapping Nottingham mill hand, answered by swimming the English Channel in 13 hours 29 minutes, the fourth best time on record. That was not enough for Tom. No man had ever swum the Irish Sea; he decided to be the first...
Swiftest 100 yards ever swum by man: 49.4 seconds, by Yale's knock-kneed, rusty-haired freestyler, Alan Ford (now an ensign...
...turned upon his head and down swum...
...swum till he came to the bottom...