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Word: swimmer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy McLane will turn 16 next month. Already he is the nation's speediest distance swimmer. Last week in San Diego, 145-lb. Jimmy, a Phillips Andover schoolboy from Akron, won the National A.A.U. outdoor 400, 800 and 1,500-meter free-style events. His 19:23.1 time in the 1,500 set a meet record. Said Yale Coach Bob Kiphuth, who hopes that Jimmy will eventually be on his team: "He's just beginning to mature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just the Beginning | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Champion Swimmer Esther Williams, prettiest amphibian of them all, sliding and slithering through water lilies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

August. Near Esquipulas, Guatemala, a fish encountered openmouthed Swimmer Lazaro Perez, swam in, choked him to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...Guillermo Meza was one of the youngest and most gifted of the Mexicans shown in Manhattan. His masterful painting of a surf-wearied swimmer got some of the ebb and crash of its title, The Sea. Meza took up painting because he did not have enough money for music lessons. He wanted to be a strolling musician; now he paints twelve hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mexican Winter | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Greetings. Near Esquipulas, Guatemala, a fish encountered openmouthed Swimmer Lazaro Perez, swam in, choked him to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

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