Word: swum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swum the Channel in 13 hours and 20 minutes, faster than any woman had ever done it. The old record: 14 hr. 31 min., set in 1926 by Gertrude Ederle. "It's my lucky day," said Florence Chadwick...
...clear of the flaming, gasoline-covered water. Sherman was the last man to leave. He was burned, and badly shaken up by depth charges while he was in the water; 193 of his men were dead. But through the lane he had cleared off the stern, 2,054 had swum to safety...
Said Duke: "For the last four years John has swum in the tropical sea four hours a day, and is burned almost black. He should never have swum...
Charlie was graduated in 1936 from Boston English High School, where he had swum in his junior and senior years, and proceeded to "bum around," as he puts it, until he enlisted in the Navy in 1938. He served in the Pacific, mostly on the battleship West Virginia, and won the Pacific Fleet 220 and 440-yard free "Only five people have ever made good money out of swimming," he declares. style titles...