Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toss, they drew three-quarters of a length ahead with a short, strong stroke, beating 36 to the minute against the 34 of the Cantab boat. Here was work for J. A. Brown. His beautiful steering helped bring Cambridge, rowing smoothly, almost abreast. The Oxford-heavies tried a spurt. At the mile the bows were dead even. Without hitting it up, the smooth-stroking Cantabs drew ahead, pricking Oxford to a fresh spurt that shot her under Hammersmith Bridge, leading by a third of a length. Cambridge stuck to her steady stroke of 28 and all was even again...
...loss of but one out of nine meets, and ten out of 45 matches. Last year's University record was still more impressive than that of the previous year. The racquet wielders, again under the leadership of Captain W. P. Dixon '25, began its second championship season with a spurt which carried them through their schedule without the loss of a single meet, and which netted them the state and national championship. This year, the team lost but three of 45 matches, and but one in the national championship tourney. Captain Dixon showed his ability as a leader by capturing...
...first lap to make up the sixty yards conceded to Watters of the University. Watters has not shown his best since last spring, and was hampered by injuries throughout the cross-country season. Laness continued to draw up on Watters during the next five laps, and put on a spurt on the last round, almost passing the Crimson runner, but the lead proved too great to overcome...
...drew away to an early lead during the opening minutes of the game. The two teams passed the ball among themselves, and little shooting was done, so the game was sluggish at the start. After the Crimson combination had scored nine points to the opponents' five, Tech made a spurt and drew up even before the first time out was called...
...hours. They had played all the tunes they knew; the pianos were going flat; only 500 people remained in the hall; still they played on. But a doctor had just taken Professor Camillo's temperature, felt his pulse and counseled him to stop. "Maryland" was his last spurt, the gesture of a man who had been beaten by age rather than by any such putty-faced whippersnapper as his opponent. His hands slipped from the keyboard; stiffly he rose to hear Pianist Burt, winner of the championship and a purse of $2000, crash into his finale, "America...