Word: faster
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practically the method adopted at Oxford and Cambridge. There is no reason why Harvard should not be willing to be represented by a crew chosen in this way. Such a crew would be thoroughly representative of this style of rowing, and would (for the distance) very likely be faster than a four picked from the eight...
...north the system of county matches makes rapid strides. Is the game more dangerous than it was ? Most of the accidents occur under the Rugby Union rules, and the players vaunt the change from the old twenty to the fifteen game. The improvement makes the game faster, but it brings with it far more falls and collisions than the old shoving contest. To have abolished the "maul-in-goal" is at any rate a good thing ; but foot-ball is more dangerous than the hunting-field...
...from reaching high balls. These defects, together with the unusually large size of the triceps extensor muscle, make it hard for the female to serve successfully. Were it not for these anatomical peculiarities of the female, she would doubtless far surpass the male at tennis. She can run faster, see more quickly, and is not so easily confused. But the scientific fact remains that tennis is not a game for the human female. The game of parlor croquet is best adapted to the peculiar construction of her bones...
...four dashes of a quarter-mile each. The first was made in 51 2-5s., the second in 55s., the third in 46 2-5s.. and the fourth in 52 4-5s., a total of 3m, 31 4-5s., or 28 1-5s. faster than West-hall's best on record. The four quarters were run inside 45 minutes...
...much that there was no interest in the race. Now if these second rate opponents had been given starts, there would have been a good race and fast time would have been made, for it is a well known fact that a man runs, walks or rides a bicycle faster and easier when some one is leading than when the best runner is making his own pace ; as he of necessity does, if the other runners are not given starts. As evidence of this the English bicycle championshipr since 1879 have been made in slower time with one exception than...