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Word: guesswork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...endurance, and speed as their record of 7.17 1/2 in the short race and 18.44 1/2 in the three-mile race shows. The times for all the test-races are found to be from 8 1/2 to 10 seconds too fast, as the course - which was laid out by guesswork - proved, on being surveyed after the races, to be 130 feet 9 inches short of the proper distance. Hence the exact speed of the crews over a course of the proper length can only be guessed at. Altogether the regatta cannot be called an unqualified success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

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