Word: slower
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Your article also gives the impression that Mr. Darling is not a proper man to be coached for the mile walk, and mentions a gentleman who walked but once last year when he made 8 min. 59 sec. (a minute slower than Mr. Darling's actual time this year, as the proper...
...rides a bicycle faster and easier when some one is leading than when the best runner is making his own pace ; as he of necessity does, if the other runners are not given starts. As evidence of this the English bicycle championshipr since 1879 have been made in slower time with one exception than 2.55 (while the record has been lowered from 2.46 in 1879 to 2.41 in 1882) simply because every-one started from scratch and no one was willing or could cut out the pace. Looking over the English records one finds more than half have been made...
George has finally beaten his great rival, W. Snook in 4:23 2-3 for one mile. Snook lately beat George in slower time...
...that the new stroke adopted by the Yale College oarsmen differs from the old one in these particulars: The reach forward is much longer, and the body is not swung so far back of the perpendicular. The slides are shorter, and on the recover the body is drawn up slower, which, it is held, does not stop the momentum of the boat as much as the quicker slide. The hands are thrown away from the body very rapidly. The oars are pulled through the water about as quickly as last year, however. Although the motions within the boat...
...against the tide, or at 2 P. M., when half down, or at dead low water; but they said they would not row at either 11.30 or 12. The reason they gave was that if they rowed when the tide had just turned, and Harvard won in slower time than had been made in the Yale race, Columbia men would think Harvard had won easily. And yet when they refused to row on the first of the ebb, when both courses were equal, and fast time could be made, they offered to row against the tide, or at dead...