Word: spurted
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...sand fastened to ropes that passed over pulleys. The crew rowed twenty minutes daily and during the last three or four minutes of each pull the captain stood by with a tin cup and filled up the bags as rapidly as possible to produce the effect of a spurt...
...Stearn won the single scull contest by a desperate spurt just off the old wall...
...Dartmouth man literally slid twenty feet on his back in the mud, - a most comical occurrence. Time, 4 minutes. No goal. Odlin, when the ball was again put in play, made the first attempt at rushing on the part of Dartmouth, but was stopped by Harding. A fine spurt by Woodman brought the ball close to goal, and Holden dived over the line with it. Time, 4 minutes. Goal. Odlin led off with a long kick which Peabody returned; Kelley muffed it and Bancroft secured it near goal. In another minute Porter ran past the whole eleven and scored...
...means put forth their best efforts, but merely endeavored to push the freshmen as fast as possible in order to see just what they were capable of doing. The freshmen demonstrated on this occasion that they were capable of pulling a fast race and making a fine spurt when called upon to do so. The freshmen will not row in a new boat at New London, as they have all along expected. Waters, who was to make their boat, has been hard at work on the Harvard 'varsity shell, and could not finish it in time to make a boat...
...neatly enough. The men do not slide slowly enough on the recover; they do not start on the recover soon enough; most of them do not feather long enough; they do not keep their blades quite covered, and some of them get jerky when they spurt." - Columbia Spectator...