Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they seem to, not only among some undergraduates but among men long out of college who are so devilishly clever that they make on turn with relief to Sanford and Merton. The trouble with these superior, people is that out of the bowels of their own cleverness they spin a web in which hangs nothing but dreary, dessicated warnings to us not to be so devilish clever. When a man has reached the height where he can prove beyond a doubt that Meredith was a bore and Burke a soporific, he has also demonstrated to us common people...
...kept a high beat throughout the early stretches of the course, and by dint of a well-timed spurt near the finish went over the line in good form with a time record which is all the more encouraging in view of the fact that it is the initial spin over a four-mile stretch...
This afternoon, provided the weather is not too hot, Dr. Howe will send Crew A for its first practice spin over the four-mile distance...
...North American Review", sees fit to ask "How great are We Americans"? Great, that is, in artistic or literary fame. Evidently forty-million-word efforts, prodigious though they be, are not accounted sufficient of themselves. There must be something more than a deal of ink and the ability to spin a yarn. Who was it that called genius "an infinite capacity for taking pains...
...spite of a strong wind which made the surface of the basin rough and choppy Coach Bert Haines yesterday afternoon took several of his Freshman eights down the river for a short spin, alternating periods of easy paddling with stretches of sprint stoke and laying special emphasis on racing starts...