Word: slid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterdays race the big Sophomore crew clearly demonstrated its strength. The Junior eight caught the water first and shot a few feet into the lead for the first quarter of a mile. The 1929 shell soon slid, ahead, however, while the Senior boat dropped slowly behind the other two. At the Harvard Bridge the Sophomores led by a length, with the Juniors the same distance ahead of the 1927 crew. Just beyond this point, however, the Sophomores pulled steadily away. The Seniors hung on to the Juniors' redder until the Henley, but then fell back. At the finish...
...white puppy, Riff-Raff, by throwing sticks for the latter to fetch out on the thin ice of Sunset Lake [Vassar campus pond]. Once the stick skittered far from shore. Riff-Raff, scampering after it, saw too late a hole yawning in the ice. He set his feet, slid into eight feet of water. The men on shore idly discussed how best to save the floundering, choking puppy. Not so Celeste Corcoran, 20-year old Vassar senior. Treading lightly but swiftly, crawling the last few yards, she went to Riff-Raff across the cracking ice, dragged him out, wrapped...
Eleven-year-old Uldine sat within the enchanting tent. She fidgeted, became still, swayed in her seat and slid from underneath grandpappy's hand . . . started forth toward the coaxing smiles and silvery sounding voice of the revivalist . . . out into the aisle . . . straight to the altar and down on her knees before Aimee, wanting to know how to be a Christian...
...Palmer House elevator (in Chicago) stopped at the fourth floor. The doors slid aside and a group of doctors walked in. They were members of Federation of State Medical Boards and of the Council on Education, Licensure and Hospitals of the American Medical Association. Their business was serious; they murmured busily. The elevator remained at the fourth floor...
...with his arms lovingly clasped about the horse's neck. The only thing that has kept many a man from falling off after a jump," added the captain "is the fact that the horse's ears were pricked up. If they had been pointed forward, the rider would have slid off immediately...