Word: dived
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon after dawn as is seemly, the pajama-clad small fry whoop into "Grandpa's" bedroom, bounce on his bed, shout "Merry Christmas," and dive for the bulging red stockings hanging from the mantelpiece. After breakfast (smoked sausages and scrambled eggs) the President and the immediate family motor around old Lafayette Square to the grey granite St. Thomas Episcopal Church...
Rusty Greenhood is favored to take the dive against Chef Sagenhahn and George Dana. Last Year's leader and League champion has been seen around the pool three times a week for several months. His diving-mate will be Roulding Burbank '28, who last year sent the spectators and himself into convulsions with his horizontal entries...
There is also a fine squad of holdovers from 1939, including Captain Sam Tator, George Jack. Bob Chapman and Lester Halpern in the free style events; George Embrick and Levick Tolan in the back stroke; Lafe Weeks in the breast stroke and Bob Logan and John Rogers in the dive...
Bill Merriam, Pennsylvania's veteran coach, figures that this team will be stronger in the back stroke and distance swims, a little better in the breast stroke and slightly weaker in the sprints and dive...
...brushed back, a monocle, a vacant eye, a gardenia in his buttonhole." Fancying a creature like this at the Zeesen mike, Britons nowadays consider it a great gag when Lord Haw-Haw says, sententiously: "Britain, your naval prestige is destroyed. We Germans now command the seas. A submarine can dive many times; a capital ship only once...