Word: somersaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turns a gigantic somersault, once every 24 hours, because of the earth's daily rotation on its axis. If he lives half way between the North Pole and the Equator, this motion carries him along along at some 700 miles per hour...
...required dives for the low board remain the same as before, but the high board is used for all meets if the opposing team's divers have three-meter facilities at their home pool. First new dive is the "flying somersault forward, running," which is simply a conventional swan dive with a quick flip on the end of it. The "somersault backward" is just what it says it is except that the diver's body is kept perfectly stiff throughout the dive...
Ample consolation for Stepp this year, though, was the unofficial time for Princeton's disqualified 300-yard medley relay team. 2:53.5 was the clocking, a world's record, invalid because Al Van de Weghe, Tiger backstroker, failed to touch the wall with his hand as he negotiated a somersault turn in the first leg. The Nassan mermen were rather bitter about the ruling, for Van de Weghe, is notorious for touching as much as two feet below the surface, a practice which makes it very difficult for the judge on turns to see what's going...
...final and more effective way of getting out the vote the state press made an astonishing last-minute somersault. Soviet editors have been telling Russians for months about how the secret ballot, "that great boon conferred by Stalin, Our Sun," will protect them. The 100,000,000 prospective voters have been warned that of course they must not write their names on these secret ballots, that any ballot would be invalidated if so signed or marked that the voter revealed his identity. Suddenly upon this point the Soviet press reversed, proclaimed last week under banner headlines that every voter...
Madame X (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Her old hat fetchingly refurbished with the latest Hollywood chic, Madame X is making a valiant cinema comeback with her famed somersault-from-grace routine, conceived for her almost 30 years ago by French Playwright Alexandre Bisson. Last Madame X in pictures was Ruth Chatterton (1929). First produced on Broadway in 1910, revived in 1927, the play has been filmed thrice as Madame X, often approximated under other titles. Hiding her ''shame" under the historic pseudonym this time is Gladys George, stage veteran and no cinemamateur...