Word: spurt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University game Yale was master throughout except for a short spurt by the Crimson at the start of the second period when the gap between the two teams was narrowed down to seven points. Captain Horwitz was brilliant in his team's victory...
...first chukker. Jenkins made two goals while Gerry accounted for one. But outside of this spurt in the opening chukker the Crimson trio was not up to its usual good team work and brilliant individual plays that have featured its previous contests Captain Gerry was plainly not playing the excellent polo of which he is capable...
...night, January 10, for a final victory of 31 to 28. From a straggling start, the Crimson basketmen had the situation well in hand at the beginning of the second period, but the appearance of the second-string men on the floor spurred the players from Burlington to a spurt which threatened the Harvard ascendency...
Staging a scoring spurt at the start of the second period that netted four goals in four minutes Harvard's hockey team completely put the University of Toronto sextet to rout at the Garden last night winning by a score...
...physiological age equivalent to a nine-year-old child. "The elephant, in spite of its huge bulk, seems to pass through the successive phases of development to adulthood at approximately the same chronological rate as man." Anthropoids and Man keep time for six years. Then suddenly the anthropoids spurt. A seven-year ape equals a 12½-year boy; an eight-year ape a 20-year boy.- Dr.Thomas Wingate Todd, Cleveland...