Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although Captain Richardson was not satisfied with the way the shell went along, it appeared to be travelling quite well most of the time. The stroke was kept long even in the spurt and the men were all together throughout the course. The conditions were not particularly conducive to good time. The tide was practically at high water and there was a slightly favorable wind with rain the whole distance...
...quarter-mile Atlee of Princeton, started out at a tremendous pace, with Carpenter of Cornell and DeSelding of Harvard following, ahead of Taylor of Pennsylvania. Atlee and Carpenter swung very wide when entering the stretch to the finish, and Taylor, seeing this, made a great spurt, and finally succeeded in passing them. Atlee became exhausted, and then De Selding sprinted down the stretch and finished a yard behind Taylor. Carpenter of Cornell secured
...this point the visiting crew made a desperate effort to make good its loss, but in vain, as the University crew continued to draw away. By the time the finishing line was reached, the crew was 10 lengths to the good, and finished with a lively spurt, 17 full strokes ahead of Cornell. The Harvard time was 10 minutes, 47 seconds; Cornell's time was 11 minutes, 24 seconds...
...seconds. The school boys had the better of the start and in the first mile opened up a lead of two length. Then the reserve strength and better training of the Weld crew began to tell and in a good finish it beat out the High School crew whose spurt was unavailing...
...their course by a mass of floating debris, and by the time they were straightened out on the other side of the bridge the Freshmen had gained a lead of nearly two lengths of open water. The Sophomores then raised the stroke to 38, and with a magnificent spurt closed in rapidly on the Freshmen. The remaining distance was too short, however, and the Freshmen crossed the line half a length of open water ahead of the Sophomores...