Word: faster
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lengths or more by running into the launch. About 300 yards after the Cottage Farm Bridge had been passed, the University crew passed the third, and had made up two lengths on the second. The crew at this point began to row well getting a quick catch with a faster recovery, and making its weight and strength count at a stroke...
...punt. The second team was again given the ball and, by a number of trick plays, gained nearly thirty yards before losing it. The first team then went straight down the field for its first touchdown, Minot scoring. After a short intermission play was resumed, and was considerably faster. O'Hare and Whitney did excellent work for the second team, stopping a number of plays for no gain. The second touchdown was largely due to a long forward pass to L. D. Smith after the first team had been penalized...
...distance of about two and one-half miles. The crew showed much improvement over yesterday's work and appears to be slowly emerging from last week's decided slump. The men were using their shoulders to better advantage at the finish, with the result that the boat was faster and much more life was shown in getting the oars in at the catch. The work of the three fours was also encouraging and the Freshman eight continued to improve, showing signs of being faster than last year's crew. Dr. Ladd was forced to leave the quarters today because...
...opening, and by powerful and desperate running threw himself across the tape ahead of Palmer. Leger and Kelley held their positions ahead of deSelding and the two Cornell men and took third and fourth respectively. If fewer men had been in the race the time would probably have been faster as there would have been less crowding...
...that the Pennsylvania Railroad prefers college bred men as apprentices in the Altoona shops, but Mr. Fagan tells us that the time is fast coming when the technically trained man who starts at the bottom in such an organization as a great railroad system, need not expect promotion any faster than his less fortunate fellows. What effect will this have on the future of education? Mr. Fagan has a singularly trenchant style. He writes as one that "knews, and knows, that he knows...