His mother funded the establishment of the library, on condition that every Harvard graduate be able to swim 50 yards.

He swam another hundred yards down the beach, then started toward shore.

Learning means lots of falling in, so you must be able to swim 25 yards.

The student needs to swim 15 yards on front, back and crawl, also jump into deep water from side.

He starts with a 400-yard warm-up, then swims 2,000 yards in a little more than half an hour.

Early in the week, four swam the 300 yards back to their country.

He screamed at people, urging them to try to swim 60 yards to a sandbar, from which they could walk to shore.

Using a flashlight to guide their way, they swam 300 yards to the dock.

Parker gave up after swimming 100 yards and came to shore at the western end of the island.

A fourth managed to swim several hundred yards to shore to raise the alarm.