Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this system of rowing is its smoothness and freedom from all apparent effort. Even in the excitement of a race, when the men are trying to pull the blades off the oars, the continuous pendulum-like motion of the body at the end of the stroke effectually veils their frantic efforts...
...storm had its comical side. The loss of an umbrella or hat was of frequent occurrence. On Broadway, one woman of 200 pounds weight got caught in a drift. The frantic efforts of her escort to extricate her were without avail. Extra aid was summoned and after repeated attempts she was rescued and placed upon firm ground...
...their customs, but the defamers of the game of foot-ball have a certain license in their attacks which is not allowed other detractors, owing probably to the apparent fighting which goes on between the rush lines of two elevens. The Boston Record of Monday launched out in a frantic tirade against the barbarity of the Princeton-Harvard game. Now, every one who saw that game knows how devoid of "slugging" it was, how critical the umpiring, and little the kicking. Yet we find the following in that enterprising Boston daily...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- After seeing a great game like Saturdays-wild enthusiasm, frantic cheering, the great rush at the end, and all the other stirring incidents of the scene-it is most dampening to read the meagre and cold-blooded accounts of it in all the papers. I notice that the CRIMSON even reduces the first individual feat in the game, Boyden's run, to this: "Harvard's down; ball passed back to Boyden," etc. Won't you correct this and put in print that Boyden took the ball running from a long punt at the middle of the field...
...just 5.37 the word "Go" was given, and the boats were off. The start was very even, Harvard having a slight advantage. Before the quarter mile was reached, however, Columbia had caught up with her rivals, and urged on by the frantic cheers of their supporters on land and water, the two boats flew down the river. At this point, Harvard was rowing 35 and Columbia 38 strokes to the minute...