Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bicycle club had a successful run, ending with a swim in the Charles, yesterday...
...conclusion, a word of advice ; "Do not essay canoeing unless you know how to swim well...
...late Boston paper calls attention to the fact that sixty-seven members of the West Point class entering last June were unable to swim. "Instruction in this indispensable art was given during the summer, and, as a result, all of the class, with two exceptions, could swim, and most of them were able to venture across the Hudson river." The strange part of the whole affair, in the opinion of our contemporary, is that so large a proportion of a class were entirely incapable of supporting themselves in the water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity...
...drew up the rules and regulations which are the basis of our present naval code, and was the ablest advocate of the Declaration of Independence during the three days debate in congress. He was supposed to have greatly hastened business by the unparalleled oratorical outburst of; "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my heart and my hand to this vote...
...life preserver, which he hastily adjusted to himself, but being dressed and finding the life preserver almost worthless from its flimsy character, it was difficult for him to make much headway. He was not over three-quarters of a mile from the main land, and if he determined to swim to the shore the wind and tide were against him; so he was obliged to abandon the attempt and strike out for the rocks known as the Hen and Chickens reef although they were in a very poor place for refuge and people acquainted with the rocks...