Word: swum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked Tim Neville about it and he said he just wasn't sure about the future and swimming, but that he had not swum last summer, just to get the feel of it after continuos competitive swimming since before he was eight. "I know I didn't come to Harvard primarily to swim and I know swimming has to end soon--one can't swim for a career." Associate Director of Athletics Baron Pittenger concurs. "No one is going to get a Harvard team doing the 12,0000 yards a day necessary to win the national championship...
...judges awarded first place to Carstensen of Dartmouth, although the electronic timer indicated that Harvard's Tim Neville had swum the faster race by one hundreth of a second. Evidently, the electronic backup judging system, which is part of the timer, credited Carstensen with the first touch, and the judges went by that decision although the evidence was to the contrary...
There is nothing new, or even particularly secret, about the hundreds of thousands of Mexican "wetbacks" (mojados, as they are known to their Chicano cousins), who have swum the Rio Grande or simply walked into the U.S. at some point along the hundreds of miles of largely unpatrolled border. Nor is there much that the badly undermanned U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service can do about keeping the immigrants out. The "illegals" who are caught-some 320,000 during the last fiscal year-are simply sent back across the border. The people who employ, encourage and often exploit them...
Costin, Servilla and Sinnott, all freshmen, and Anderson, a senior, were AAU swimmers in high school. Fletcher a senior and co-captain, had never swum competitively before coming to Radcliffe. Costin was New England high school champion in the 50-yard freestyle last year...
...raised in a California hatchery was shifted to a different stream when it was a year old. At spawning time the next year, the fish appeared back in its old tank. From the sea, it had found and ascended its home stream, crossed under U.S. Highway 101 by culvert, swum through a storm sewer and up to a flume, finally wriggled through a right-angled 4-in. drainpipe, knocking off its wire cap, and leaped across a wire net that surrounded the drain...