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Word: sprints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Winters started the scoring spree with a 15-yard sprint around the end. Minutes later, Sam Cantwell blasted off tackle for 30 yards and the second touchdown. Nat Howard bucked the third tally over from the one-yard line and Winters booted the extra point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett, Dunster Scoreless; Dudley Bows to Kirkland | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

...weekly sprint to Warren House has started again. More than 1250 Freshman members of English A face a long winter of neatly-folded themes, conferences with tired instructors, and slow-moving class meetings twice a week. Their sections have been arbitrarily assigned without so much as a nod towards the varying abilities of the students. Skillful writers may very well find themselves classed with other men who have to be coached all the way up from the fundamentals of grammar. The result is an unwieldy and inflexible course, with material geared to its slowest students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shuffle the Sections | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

...effortless sprint of Waugh's prose discovered a new region of perverse innocence unshadowed by any moral concepts whatever, it was clear that a new master of English satire had emerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Knife in the Jocular Vein | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Shoving off from the Newell float (above) before the recent Eastern Sprint Regatta are the eight men who will probably row against the Blue over the four-mile course at New London on June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Eight Will Row Yale on June 25 | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

This is Harvard's (and Yale's) big problem as far as the all-important Olympic trials go. Bolles figures it will take the Crimson Varsity until three days before sprint encounter to build up the normal amount of energy, and that doesn't leave much time to train down to the short distance race...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crimson Sports | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

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