Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bridge and gradually pushed to the front again. With a third of a mile left to row Captain Winthrop put the Crimson stroke up to 40 and the University shell began to gain. But the leaders were not to be denied their victory, and Penn fighting off the Crimson spurt swept across the finish line with Tech still hanging on a bare half length behind...
...Freshmen nosed out Captain Winthrop's shell, it was expected that the University boat would get revenge as soon as it had rowed in the same order for more than three days. Last Saturday, however, the Freshmen did not win by a scant six feet, but in a final spurt pulled nearly a length ahead of Coach Steven's first boat. The second University crew was two lengths behind half way down the course, when the wash from the launches forced them to stop rowing for a moment; from there to the finish they were in rough water and fell...
...race was practically decided beneath the bridge. With the onlookers calling loudly for a Crimson spurt, Princeton suddenly jumped ahead with a higher count and came out into open water again well in the lead. From then until the finish line was reached the Black and Orange lightweights increased their advantage to a full length. The Harvard boat never stopped fighting, however, and actually pulled up a few feet in the last 100 yards...
Causing a decided upset in preface dope, the Junior A crew, stroked by O. A. Pendar '27, came through with a brilliant spurt in the last piece of the championship class race yesterday afternoon to win from the Senior crew by 4 feet...
...General Council acted, forced the surrender of Dr. Axham's license, ostracized him. He could not practice at all, although he could and did continue to act as anesthetist for Osteopath Barker, who through the years acquired more and more fame, until his knighting. That event gave a spurt to the propaganda of laymen for the restoration of Dr. Axham's dignities. The press assumed interest. Parliament heard of the case. Yet the General Council remained obdurate...