Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...didn't you spurt her?" "Spurt the dickens," panted the stroker; "why-er-what the -er-I say, young feller, where did you come from?" "From New York, gentlemen," replied the stranger, modestly, as he slipped on his coat and started up the wharf. "My name is Hanlan-and I hope to see you all at Vallejo on Thursday. Good morning." And since then all you have to do to get fourteen stretchers fired at you, is to stick your head into the Pioneer club-house and yell, "Hard all!" [Aquatic...
...rowing on the "basin," all of which serve to show the defects of the individual members and of the crew as a whole to the coach sitting in the stern. The better the crew our eight chances to meet in this way, the more practice they derive from the spurt. Then the June regattas of the Union club are useful whenever they can get anything to match our eight. When the last of June comes and the final races, our men have had many faults, which can only be ascertained in this way, eradicated, and therefore come to the scratch...
...least a year under professional coaching, and they were to meet a crew whose little training had been exclusively devoted to four-mile pulls, and which was, therefore, unqualified, other things being equal, to cope successfully with men whose strong point was a mile and a half spurt. Nevertheless, this crew, with their professional trainer and his methods, was beaten by Columbia. She, in her turn, was disastrously defeated in a race covering her pet distance on the Thames by Harvard. This places the university at about the bottom of the list in college boating...
...Norton made up their handicap but again the scent was lost and the other hounds caught up again. The hounds just beyond the reservoir broke for home. Norton led till beyond Allston with Matthewson and Slocumb just behind. It was then so dark that it was unsafe to spurt so as it was impossible for the handicapped men to gain twenty seconds on Mr. Slocumb and forgetting there was a third prize it was resolved to ride in together. Mr. Matthewson led at the finish by a few inches over Mr. Norton who was just ahead of Mr. Slocumb...
...Cowie perhaps obtained a shade the best of a capital start, and led Ritchie by about three-quarters of a yard at the half-distance, Philips at this point a yard in the rear of the Moseley Harrier. A clipping spurt on the part of the last-named nearly brought him to Cowie's shoulder, the L. A. C. man. to our thinking, just breaking the worsted first by about six inches. The flat, however, was a dead heat. Philips finished third, a yard behind. It was subsequently arranged that Cowie and Ritchie should settle the question at Birmingham. Time...