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Word: slide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Slumps at both ends of the stroke and has no control over either body or slide. He should keep his shoulders drawn and look out for his time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Senior Crew. | 2/13/1889 | See Source »

...Woodruff, '89, 178 lbs., slow with his hands, swings to port, cocks his oar over the catch, pulls too shallow and does not finish clean. Body work is for the most part good and he has good control of his slide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Crew. | 6/20/1888 | See Source »

...Lets his slide go too soon; apt to hurry forward in the recover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard University Crew. | 6/19/1888 | See Source »

...acorn, to make the picture complete; at the other end stood the freshmen, in weighty council of war; now they come on with a rush and a shout. Out through the door the mass is squeezed, like a bed-sheet through a clothes-wringer, and down the campus they slide on the smooth crust of snow. The fight soon divided itself into two sections-the freshmen with the bowl man in their midst, striving to gain the gate on Thirty-fourth street, and thus put their man in safety, while the sophs were trying to tug the bowl after them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Annual Bowl Fight at the University of Pennsylvania. | 2/11/1888 | See Source »

...candidates for the freshman nine have begun to slide bases in the cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/27/1888 | See Source »

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