Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score. McLeish, captain of the team last year, played a fast dribbling game, going down the floor for three goals, while several of his passes to Lowenthal resulted in tallies. Toward the end of the first half Coach Wachter's team pulled away from Middlebury by a spurt in which a fast play, Black to Sipp and Sipp to Lowenthal under the basket, featured...
...delegation from the Rowing Committee followed the shell and Dr. Howe expressed himself as well pleased with the work-out. Although rowing alone, Crew A, starting at the Cambridge Boat Club, kept a high beat throughout the early stretches of the course, and by dint of a well-timed spurt near the finish went over the line in good form with a time record which is all the more encouraging in view of the fact that it is the initial spin over a four-mile stretch...
Burke's win over Campbell of Yale in the half was one of the most thrilling things that has ever been seen in the Stadium. The Crimson runner uncovered a tremendous spurt on the last straight-away and pushed his way over the finish line a victor by inches...
...pace than their opponents, pulled rapidly ahead and beyond the half-mile mark had half a length's advantage. Brown kept the stroke up to 34 and at the Harvard Bridge open water showed between the two shells, but once under the arch the Junior boat put on a spurt which ate up half a length of their rivals' lead and gave it what looked like an equal chance for victory...
Meanwhile Brown had been holding his crew to a slightly lower stroke, and when the seconds dropped the beat after their spurt, the first eight began to creep up again. All the way down the lower Basin the two crews held their own with a slight margin favoring the seconds. A hundred yards from the finish only a few feet separated the crews as the two coxswains called for the final spurts. The thirds finished about four lengths behind...