Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile relay team which defeated Cornell in the final record-breaking time of 3 minutes 30 seconds. It was a brilliant third quarter that Torbie MacDonald ran which gave the Crimson a ten yard lead over Ithaca Yardlings, and anchorman Jim Lightbody opened it some more in the final spurt...
Midway through the second period, the Bears saw four Crimson goals scored inside of two minutes before they could rally behind Captain Jack Skillings to stem the tide, but that scoring spurt told the story...
Playing a long passing game during the first 20 minutes of play, the Crimson's was an impressive attack, but a Quaker spurt in the closing minutes left the Fishermen trailing 22-13 at the half...
...Landru guillotined in a Versailles street for butchering ten women and a boy. When the warders flung the murderer on the machine, part of the platform collapsed, but they managed to clamp his neck under the knife anyway. The heavy blade fell and Mr. Miller observed that "a hideous spurt of blood gushed out." Time elapsed: 26 sec. Three years later, star Reporter Miller turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller looked on at Dharasana, native police under...
...tell the runners how fast they were going. This was to make it easy for Lovelock to set a new world's record. When the race was over, Lovelock had not only failed to set a new record, but he had also failed to win. A brave spurt at the finish left him five yards behind Kansas' Archie San Romani, whose excellent but non-record-breaking time was 4:09. Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, whom Lovelock last month rated the best in the world, finished third...