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To swim is true, and to sink is true.
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No bottle pool is tolerated -- bottle pool being our lingo for those who come to swim and sink into our bar while protesting that they can only dunk and run.
Bill Veeck's health is back to the dynamo stage, but his medics insist he rest for several more months before getting back into the baseball swim.
Innumerable motels from Tucson to New York boast swimming pools ( `` swim at your own risk '' is the hospitable sign poised at the brink of most pools ).
There is a peaceful image of Rieux lying motionless on his back gazing up at the stars and moon, and then when Tarrou joins him they swim side by side, " with the same zest, the same rhythm, isolated from the world, at last free of the town and of the plague.
While trying to swim across the dangerous Euphrates, Abd al-Rahman is said to have become separated from his brother Yahiya, who began swimming back towards the horsemen, possibly from fear of drowning.
Silver Sands is becoming more popular with open water swimmers, who swim daily in the sea, both as a leisure pursuit, and as training for open water competition.
Since there is no evidence that late Maastrichtian nonavian dinosaurs could burrow, swim or dive, they were unable to shelter themselves from the worst parts of any environmental stress that occurred at the K – T boundary.
If the level of an attractant remains high, the level of phosphorylation of CheA ( and therefore CheY and CheB ) will remain low, the cell will swim smoothly, and the level of methylation of the MCPs will increase ( because CheB-P is not present to demethylate ).
The creature is said to either swim alongside boats or sail around them in a partially submerged vessel, always on their own.
The NCAA will separate diving from swimming in special diving competitions after the swim season is completed.
There are lots of swimming pools on the island but the most obvious place to swim is in the open sea.
While some forms are capable of independent movement and can swim hundreds of meters vertically in a single day ( a behavior called diel vertical migration ), their horizontal position is primarily determined by the surrounding currents.
This is in contrast to nekton organisms that can swim against the ambient flow and control their position ( e. g. squid, fish, and marine mammals ).
Among many Native Americans, the jaguar is a spirit animal because jaguars walk on earth, swim in water, and climb in trees.
* Exhaustion where the person is unable to sustain effort to swim or tread water, often leading to death through drowning.
Despite its rotund appearance, the devil is capable of surprising speed and endurance, and can climb trees and swim across rivers.
According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.
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While difficult to distinguish from each other, they are most easily distinguished from true moles by shovel-like patches on their noses which they use in tandem with their abbreviated forepaws to swim through sandy soils.
Like the true gurnards ( sea robins ), to which they may be related, they possess a swim bladder with two lobes and a " drumming muscle " that can beat against the swim bladder to produce sounds.
How he does this and the how the message Anyone can swim with stream but a true human is one who succeeds against stream, of Hari and his father is carried out is what the movie tries to convey.
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Canning eventually decided not to resign and wrote that " I am resolved to “ sink or swim ” with Pitt, though he has tied himself to such sinking company.
Tapirs near a water source will swim, sink to the bottom and walk along the riverbed to feed, and have been known to submerge themselves under water to allow small fish to pick parasites off their bulky bodies.
* Siamese twins ( linguistics ), words used together as an expression like fish and chips, sink or swim, or null and void
* Xi Shi ( c. 7th to 6th century BC, Spring and Autumn Period ), said to be so entrancingly beautiful that fish would forget how to swim and sink away from the surface when she walks by.
Generally, the siphuncle is unable to provide a way to change the density of shell rapidly and thus cause the animal to rise or sink at will ; rather, the animal must swim up or down as required.
The series was also the first to examine the stressful world of young police officers who are invariably " thrown into the deep end where they are left to sink or swim ".
The emphasis is not on making students " sink or swim ," but rather to do their best to see that every student enjoys success in his or her endeavors.
People should be given an opportunity to learn skills they do not have, but this is best done through some sort of ' apprenticeship ' programme rather than the ' sink or swim ' method.
* Sink or Swim-The studio audience ( and viewers ) were invited to speculate as to whether a chosen animal ( e. g. a mouse or a snake ) would sink or swim in a fishtank.
It was thought that students should receive no tutorial assistance but rather sink or swim on a few lectures from their professors each week.
Weevers are unusual in not having a swim bladder as do most bony fishes and as a result sink as soon as they stop actively swimming.
They now understand that the show must sink or swim as it is, with the five of them, without a " bankable " star, because their relationship and the quality of their creation are more important to them than commercial success ; they would rather be "... nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth-favorite thing " (" Nine People's Favorite Thing ").
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Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.
Naive of us, maybe, but the results of our impulsive invitations to `` come over next summer and swim in our new pool '' were both unexpected and unsettling.
* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.
In order to get dry after a swim, the Dodo proposes that everyone run a Caucus race — where the participants run in patterns of any shape, starting and leaving off whenever they like, so that everyone wins.
* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
He and some colleagues had stripped naked for a swim in the river when they were surprised by a party of ladies out for a stroll.
They swim " upside-down " and feed by filtering organic particles from the water or by scraping algae from surfaces.
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