History of the United States II / Unit 9 USH2 1207 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sports Heroes
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The idea
Babe Ruth hit sixty home runs in nineteen twenty-seven, and a year earlier Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel, the first woman ever to do so.
In practice
Helen Wills winning eight Wimbledon singles titles between nineteen twenty-seven and nineteen thirty-eight.
Where people slip
Big Bill Tilden took the national tennis championship in each year from nineteen twenty through nineteen twenty-five, the anchor says.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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