Word: undertows
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...week. Without warning a huge, smooth wall of water, at least ten feet high according to witnesses, rolled in from the lake, smashed the shoreline. Other big waves followed. Scores of rescues were made along miles of waterfront. Five persons were swept out into the lake by a ferocious undertow and drowned...
...safe from which was recovered ?15,000 in gold. Another dive, he related, had provided an experience he would not care to repeat. He and a companion were caught alongside the jagged wreckage by a strong tide. He was helpless in the dark green water for 40 min. Undertow bashed him against sharp steel, so dented his duralumin suit that twelve stitches had to be taken in his side when he was rescued an hour later. His hand was mangled. His hair had turned white...
...UNDERTOW-A. Hamilton Gibbs-Little, Brown...
...warm, easy life in the South of France suits Philip so perfectly that even to himself he becomes Philippe Josselin and as Philippe Josselin he sees nothing strange or wrong about loving Jeanne, the pension-keeper's daughter. The French undertow is so strong that Millicent is forgotten until a telegram reminds him of the wedding three weeks off. He goes back to England, tries to explain his reincarnation to Millicent but she will not release him. He escapes to France, marries Jeanne. But his new-found ego absorbs him so completely that not until she is dying...
Outstanding 1929 Carnegie medalists were aquatic heroes. Two silver medals were awarded. One went to Miss Barbara H. Miller, 22, Charleston, S. C. student. for braving an ocean undertow which had vanquished several men, to rescue a drowning woman. The other, with a monthly death benefit, was awarded to the widow of Edward R. Grundy. At Miami Beach. Fla., Grundy swam out to a drowning woman, clutched her, battled the undertow desperately for 20 minutes. When another swimmer reached them, Hero Grundy was dead...