Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...suddenly called away, and have not had time until now to reply to yours of the 19th inst., containing a challenge to me to row you a private race...
DEAR SIR, - I hereby challenge you to a two-mile straight-away single-scull race on some neutral waters, time and place to be hereafter determined. New London, and Wednesday, June 5, preferred...
...answer to this communication has been received from New Haven, and the Yale Navy apparently have taken no action in the matter; but it is certainly a desirable thing to have a single-scull race for the championship of the two colleges, and there could be no better time for it than the week of the University race at New London. If any decision in this matter is to be reached this summer it ought to be made at once, to enable the contestants to make the necessary preparations. As Mr. Livingston has taken the first step, it is only...
...after this, three youths ran a race of two stadia; and the first happened falling unexpectedly, so that thus, you see, the second conquered...
...when now, at length, it seemed best to those in power, there was a race of twenty-four stadia on a machine, wonderful to look upon, called by those inhabiting this region a bicycle, which is of such a kind as follows : there are two wheels, of which the foremost, on the one hand, is large, having many and long spokes, but the one behind, on the other hand, is very small. On these machines, then, they contended in the stadium; and two youths especially rode near to one another, at one time one being first, at another time another...