Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lead of a length and a half by the end of the Henley distance. With this much distance to make up in the last part of the race the Sophomores seemed definitely out of it, but Hoover raised the stroke last stretch it was anybody's race. A final spurt gave the Juniors a victory by just a little more than a length...
...rather poor start, the yearling combination trailed by half a length for the first quarter-mile, but then steadied and began to draw up on their rivals. The Freshmen's final spurt came too late, however, and the schoolboy four crossed the line a seant foot in the lead
...passing Murphy and de Rahm, in the last ten yards. Murphy and de Rahm were tied for second place. Jones, in the 440-yard dash, jumped into the lead after about 50 yards and was never headed. J. H. Smith, in the half-mile run, stood off Cutcheon's spurt in the last lap successfully and won by about ten feet. In the two-mile run, Chapin set the pace all the way. At the beginning of the third lap, he increased his speed and puled away from the field, finishing at least 100 yards ahead of Sawin who came...
...superior weight of the former combination that gave it the necessary margin of victory. Out - scaling their lighter rivals by a full fifteen pounds to the man, the football oarsmen forced their way to a commanding lead by sheer power of stroke, a last minute spurt by the autumn crew boat falling to cut down their lead by any appreciable distance. I. F. M. 1, E. F. M. 2, A. C. M. 2, and A. C. M. 3 trailed in the order named...
...place over the regular mile course in the basin, but the crews were considerably hindered by a stiff wind, combined with snow, which fell during the latter part of the afternoon Autumn material crew number 7 came under the Harvard Bridge two lengths in the lead, a last-minute spurt serving to add the second lap of water as the shell shot past the finish flags. A. C. M. numbers 5, 8, 6 and 9 passed the line in the order named...