Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...knees, acts as a spring gradually to hold back the slide, thus preventing to a certain extent rushing and the consequent stopping of the shell. This, moreover, proves to be a more restful mode of recovery, as well as easier, and of smooth and delicate execution, so that the momentum is not shaken from the boat...
...that the whole energy of the great student body of the University, of the graduates, of the candidates for the team, of the University authorities, the coaches, doctors, trainers, and every one connected with the establishment, was directed with such skill that it gave to the whole mass a momentum such that it carried Harvard through to a victory so complete that it was unprecedented in her annals. W. CAMERON FORBES...
...Peabody was the second speaker. He spoke of the help that the Graduate School gives to the Faculty, for there is a sense of vacuum in teaching until the instructor receives the momentum which a serious man of the graduate type gives. The student gives to the University and it gives to him. There is about us all, when members of a university, the sense of a soldiers life. The university is the home of the ideal and, as President Gilman once said, if it does not hold up idealism, it has no reason to exist. Such a condition...