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Word: swum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naval Academy brings with it six strong swimmers. Hawaiian Chuck Gray, its free-styling sprinter, covers the 100 in 52.5 and the 220 in 2:12.5. Jack Edwards and Chouteau Dyer haven't swum the former event as fast yet this season for the Crimson, while Jim Jorgensen and Captain Ted Whatley, who both went the longer distance in only slightly better time against Cornell; will again be pushed to peak performance...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Unbeaten Varsity Swimmers Meet Strong Midshipmen Here Tonight | 2/5/1955 | See Source »

...said he brought back from his trip to the planet in 1947; 2) told her she would return to her home planet Saturn after 14,000 more years; 3) rhapsodized about Martian food, which the body absorbs without the need for elimination, and Martian water, which can be swum in without getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Eddie Sowell '34 swam the back stroke in 1:39.4 the year he graduated. The time was barely off the record for that period, though Sowell had never swum in a race before he came to Cambridge...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Ulen had been swimming a set line-up all season, but he changed it especially for Hanover. He entered Captain Charley Egan in the breast stroke. Egan hadn't swum that event since before college, but he finished second behind teammate Ralph Zani...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...Morris '49, a cripple since the age of ten because of a broken hip, had swum only for therapeutic reasons before he came to college. He became National AAU long distance champion, winning a four-mile race swum on an open lake, and took first in the 1500-meter Intercollegiate race. He made the 1948 U.S. Olympic swimming team...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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