Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...boat before, who go to the Weld to learn to row and are unable to keep upright in the most stable wherry. There is also inevitably considerable carelessness resulting in upsets and collisions, and as it is now, the unfortunates have little choice but to sink or swim. If the city will not rectify this state of affairs the boat club authorities should certainly see that the necessary precautions are taken. We can afford to take no risks...
...flung suddenly, when fast asleep, out of a car-window into a river manages to swim, with one shoulder broken, to the shore. Upon crawling up he hears behind him from the wrecked and sinking cars a woman's voice begging help. The man goes back into the river, crippled as he is, but is too late. The woman perishes before her rescuer can reach her, who nevertheless brings back to land and life a man lying on the car who cannot swim. Clarence Morgan of Buffalo, manager of the Depew Improvement Company, a young Harvard graduate of the class...
...work of the crew suffered accordingly. After shooting the Longwood bridge into the basin the seas began to wash into the boat, and at a point about midway between the Harvard Bridge and the Union Boat Club the barge filled with water and the crew were obliged to swim to the launch. The men were taken immediately to the Union house and driven out to Cambridge from there in carriages. The launch then returned to the submerged barge and towed it back to the boathouse...
...Yale barge was upset yesterday for the second time this season, and the crew had to swim ashore, pulling the barge after them...
...there. In trying to push off, the wherry was upset, and Ryder being unable to extricate his feet from the straps, was dragged under the boat. He at length managed to free himself and reach the surface, but not until he had almost lost consciousness, and was unable to swim ashore...