Word: slid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...river's edge that hot afternoon-Walter M. Hoover formerly of Duluth, now of the Undine Barge Club of Philadelphia. But he, in the finals of the single sculls, did what he had come to do. His shiny yellow arms dipped with an incomparable rhythm, his green body slid along the water a length in front of Russell Codman Jr. of Boston with Paul Costello of Pennsylvania two feet behind Codman...
Died. Miss Elizabeth Lisle, 104, prominent in British society during the Victorian era; in London. Presented at court in 1845, she was fond in later years of telling how Queen Victoria slid down stairs on a tray on the eve of ascending the throne...
...queen who slid downstairs on a tray...
Then it was April, 1918, and the U-boats were sinking about 1,000,000 tons of Allied shipping per month?Mr. Schwab raced across the country from one shipyard to another. Tons of shipping slid completed from the ways...
Last week, on a day alive with thin blue air and gaiety, eight rowers of the University of Washington pulled in competition with eight rowers of the University of California. The shells slid like yellow-legged waterbugs over the shining surface of a Pacific estuary, at first close together, at the end separated by a gap as long as 15 boats. Small craft edged up, bellowed brassily, airplanes curvetted amid ice-cream clouds. Washington had won, had set a new course record...