Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sprint Across the Common...
Culver also mentioned that signal-caller Jerry Marsh had "awful good football sense." But, according to Jordan, "It was the line that called Culver's touchdown play. They kept saying, 'We could do it,' before the fullback launched his 34-yard sprint...
...Knowland and Nixon have had differences on patronage (TIME, April 13). Last week Washington gossiped that Nixon, by getting New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges to press for delay in the election of a Senate majority leader to replace Taft, tried unsuccessfully to head off Knowland's sprint to the majority leadership...
...since the Olympics at Helsinki last summer, when they whipped the Russians in the final quarter mile, had Navy's undefeated crew faced such a challenge. Navy, sprint champions of the East at 2,000 meters, faced the rangy oarsmen of the University of Washington, undefeated this season and determined to revenge their poor showing in last year's Olympic trials. Moreover, the three-mile distance of the Syracuse Regatta was made to order for long-ranging Washington, while Navy had not raced beyond a mile and three quarters all season. Posted conspicuously in the Washington boathouse...
...fast start gave Navy a slim lead over Washington at the half-mile mark. By then, following the pre-race instructions of its canny Coach Rusty Callow, Navy began to save strength, switched to a long, easy 28-stroke-a-minute beat, to have plenty left for a finish sprint...