Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very pleasing appearance. This modern acropolis rises sheer from the plain which surrounds it, and overlooks Cambridge and Somerville. We climbed the steep pathway to the Chapel, but on reaching the top of the hill were met by two men in athletic dress running at the top of their speed, and followed by a little man in whiskers who was crying "Hou, Hou!" A little further on we came to the Museum. The Museum is a little abstract. That is, it is rather a proposal than a fact. P. T. Barnum gave $50,000 to found a Museum, and offered...
...movement is called the "shoot" because it is rapidly executed. A quick shoot is necessary; first, for the sake of uniformity: second, to avoid splashing when rowing on the water. The shoot, however, must be executed gently, for any violent motion jars a shell, and thereby greatly impedes its speed. After the shoot, the body is again swung forward, continuing, as it were, the movement of the arms. In fact, at no instant does motion cease. When the body is upright and about to reverse, the arms take up the motion, and as soon as they are at rest...
...carried my camera with me to almost all the many places I visited this summer, and took about one hundred and fifty photographs altogether. At Newport I took an instantaneous photograph of a tennis game. I tried to include the server who delivered the ball with great speed by rather a peculiar motion. I set up my tripod in the midst of the usual crowd of admiring spectators, and pointed it with great care so as to include, as I thought, my "subject." But as is often the case, a little care is worse than none. I had arranged everything...
...kicking" is allowed; no player "up," that is to say, may kick the ball hard; he must "run it down," or "dribble it," as the phrase goes elsewhere than at Eton, keeping it as much between his feet as possible. To see a skilled player do this at top speed, winding in and out among his opponents, with the ball never more than a foot or two away from him, is a pretty sight, and it is prettier still to watch him "running it down the line" with all the players crowding round him on the watch for a "rouge...
...through by Harvard with Brooks in the lead, forced the ball up the field, only to have it returned by Moffat's powerful kicking. Loose work by Harvard ensued and Harris rushed the ball through and made the last touchdown, from which a goal was kicked. Another burst of speed by the Harvard rushers carried the ball well towards the Princeton end, where Moffat's kicking again came into play to relieve his side. It was at about this time that the crowd persisted in enroaching on the limits of the field, and hampering the players when the ball...