Word: sped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...worth many days labor to see Harvard make the next score. Fifteen yards were made on the flying wedge and then Charlie Brewer went around the end and with both teams close upon his heels sped down the entire distance and planted the ball just beyond the goal line...
...ponds and streams by the roadside beyond Columous there was a good deal of skating and many of the following seemed homesick at the sight of it. But the train sped on to Cincinnati. Here it arrived at scheduled time, six o'clock. The concert was very disappointing in every way. So few people knew of it in time, that the Glee Club sang to a mere handful in the centre of the hall while the lonesome tones beat themselves to pieces on the empty chairs way off in the galleries. After the concert, barges carried the Clubs...
...some colleges I found they got over it by reversing the direction; but at New College and Queen's in Oxford, they had devices of their own. At the one a little track ran along the hearth and sustained a little carriage, in which the restless and viney vessel sped across the hot side of the circle; and at Queen's the track was placed upon the mantelpiece...