Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge-Oxford boat race was rowed last Saturday. The race was close and exciting throughout, there being no open water between the boats during the contest. Cambridge won in 22 min. 9 1-2 sec., half a boat length ahead. The average weight of the Cambridge men was 170.9 pounds; of the Oxford crew, 171.3. The time was the slowest since 1877, as the race was rowed against strong head winds all the way. The record for the past eleven years is, Oxford, 7 races; Cambridge, 4; and one dead heat...
Your correspondent says "there is as little cheating here as at any other New England college." Probably he is right; but is it not supposed - at least outside - that Harvard means to be a little ahead of her rivals and is, and that Harvard students set higher ideals before themselves than other men? Our duty is to make this even truer in the future than...
...last game in the chess tournament was won by Dr. Zukertort in eighty-six moves. This leaves Steinitz one game ahead...
...chess tournament is now progressing at New Orleans. Steinitz is two games ahead...
Stroke does not get his shoulders on well and hurries his recover. He swings back too far and is slow in starting forward. No. 7 swings back too far, and gets a weak finish. His slide gets ahead of his shoulders. No. 6 does not get his shoulders on at all. He overreaches and hangs on the full reach. He gets a weak finish and is slow in starting out. No. 5 does not get his shoulders on, and fails to keep time. He overreaches and does not hold his head up. When he starts to come back he wobbles...