Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, this year's game uniform is several ounces lighter still. The reason for the loss in weight which the players suffer between the practice field behind he Stadium and the gridiron of the Stadium itself is the fact that in a game, the athletes wear feather weight shoes--speed shoes--made to fit like kid gloves. Not all of the players undergo this loss of poundage, since the tackles do not wear the speed shoes and some of the other individual players find that the lightweight shoes do not withstand the punishment that they give their feet...
Roger Hallowell, ace center of the Crimson team in 1932, was so rough on shoes that he found that the speed shoes were left in tatters at the end of the second half. He decided to concede the speed to the sturdiness of the practice shoes and thereafter were only he heavier shoes...
Fond friends and loving relations bade again a last farewell, a small, gray-haired priest took leave from the largest of the ships, bidding it god-speed with holy sanction. A last supply of provisions arrived, the staggering donkey unloaded, and his precious freight put aboard...
...wind grew strong, tossing whitecaps on the bay as its increase filled the colored sails of the little boats. The final word was given, the lines cast off, and anchors weighed. The largest ship gained speed, as her new sails gave to the wind and filled. Lines drew taut, no longer came the tapping of loose roped upon slackened sails. The ripple in the harbor as the boats slid through the water widened as an arrow, and soon white foam frothed under the steep bows...
...year 1934 progressed," Mr. Singer writes in a rapid style, only exceeded in speed by his machine-gun-like line of talk, "all the cops in the whole Harvard College had my name on their lips. Here was someone who had avoided them for two years and they were mad. They knew I was walking by them every night...