Word: bend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...already far deeper-seated in the English proletariat than it is here; and surely America has need of some well-balanced, if Radical, thinking to meet existing conditions. Toward the solution of the problems of today the universities, both of America and of England, will do well to bend their energies. That, however, is a somewhat large topic to be inconsiderably and incidentally entered on. At the present time, and in this connection, I have only to say that the atmospheric environment in Oxford is wholly different from that in constant evidence at Harvard. In the one case...
...teams stand out as achievements that stimulate an eager determination to follow. Thus far the baseball and crew squads have encountered all sorts of obstacles that have retarded their development. In order to overcome all of these early difficulties our teams must put forth their very best efforts and bend every energy to gain success. The opportunity is presented to make this the most famous year in Harvard's athletic history; let us make the most of the opportunity...
Although bringing a confidence born of last year's unexpected victory and hopes based upon comparative performances, Dartmouth's track team realizes today that Harvard will bend every effort to win back what it lost last season. With no chance of over-confidence on either side, coupled with the importance each team attaches to victory this afternoon, the Dartmouth meet should afford one of the closest track contests ever seen in the Stadium...
...Auburn street appeared late with only seven men. At the start Russell and Claverly immediately began to pick up on Randolph, which was rowing a slow stroke, and, keeping the same positions relative to each other, they continued to gain until the Stillman Infirmary was reached. Rounding the bend at that point poor steering caused Russell to drop back, and it looked for a time as if Claverly would score a bump, but half way down the straightaway Harrower hit up his stroke, and the crews finished about as they had started...
...Holyoke street; 5, Fairfax. Almost at the start this race split up into two sections, the first section a procession of three crews with Hampden-Dunster continually gaining on the other two, and the second section a race in which Fairfax bumped Holyoke street just after rounding the last bend. The second section were far behind the first when the bumping took place...