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...political commissar of the Abies & Georgies, had the most hair-raising tale to tell. Placed by his Rightist captors under guard in a house, chunky, muscular Commissar Keller overpowered and killed his guard, crept away into the night, had wandered about for four days behind Rightist lines, swum the Ebro River three times with a bullet in his hip before he was able to slip through to the Leftists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abies & Georgies | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...came out I knew everything was all right. He stood there just as steady as ever and waited for the end of the pool to come around. But just as he was about to dive in the darn thing come hit and up him and all the big apples swum right into the Bromo Seltzers in blue bathing suits and the empty bottles went round and round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...that point Boston had 28 points and Harvard had 31, with the relay, worth seven points to the winner, still to be swum. But Powers, Moore Stowell, and Bosworth, the strongest team Coach Pete Petersen could muster, took the event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Swimmers, Pressed to Last Event, Win Over Boston Boys' Club in Hardest Meet So Far | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...course, is the big gun of the team's scoring battery. Opposing teams this year will have the disturbing thought that Charlie may swim in any freestyle race from the 50 to the 440 and relays, and be practically certain to win it. That is, if he hasn't swum in two or three events already that evening. But it is doubted whether Ulen will ever again see the necessity of swimming Hutter in three events in one meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

...untested Yardling team will take on the Lynn Y. M. C. A. swimmers at 7:30 o'clock, and Coach Pete Petersen will keep a watchful eye on his cohorts for tonight's contest will mark the first time some of them will have swum in competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TANKMEN EXPECTED TO SINK ALUMNI TONIGHT | 12/16/1937 | See Source »

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