Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been rowed. At the short wall, '82 was gaining steadily, and '84 falling astern. Half-way between the short wall and the sluiceway '82 was a length ahead of '83, and there were two lengths of clear water between '82 and '84. At the sluiceway '82 made a spurt, and '84 was a good four lengths behind. About half-way between the sluiceway and the pump, '82 was still ahead, but '83 was gaining gradually. When the crews were opposite the old inn on Beacon street '83 made a good spurt and gained a fraction of a length...
...quarter of a mile from the boat-house, '83 again made a slight gain, but '82 then commenced a spurt that she kept up till the finish, and went away from '83. '82 passed the line first in 1 1/3 lengths ahead of '83, in 12m. 43s.; '83 second in 12m. 47s.; '84 third in 13m. 43s.; and '85 fourth...
Half-mile run, '83, was won by W. N. Page; D. I. Mackie following in his steps throughout the whole distance, but losing on the final spurt. Time...
...Thames and London crowds, and remove it to Henley. The professionals don't think much of the race. The New York Times says of the crews and the race : "They are university men, and their friends have made the event fashionable, and added to this is the tremendous "spurt" which national taste has given to all kinds of out-door sports during the last quarter of a century. It was something like fifty years ago that boat-racing became a feature of university pastimes, and it was distinctly the introduction of Eton boys, who took with them to Oxford...
...their contributions to such papers as the Beaumarchais, the Jeune France and the Parnasse, but the quarter has no special literary organ that represents its interests and advocates its claims. . . . The slang of the Parisian student is a study. When he wishes to say that he has made a 'spurt,' or a 'rush,' or a 'flunk,' he calls upon words that would assuredly be distracting to the classic Corneille, were that old gentleman here to catch them. To the student, the Boulevard Saint Michel is the Boul Mich; his 'den' is his boite. . . . The Parisian students...