Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present Harvard system the finish is very poor. The trunk is doubt led up, the shoulders are rounded and breathing is not free. The boat's impetus is interrupted by the labored action of feathering with the outside forearm and elbow and by the "sudden rush forward of the arms and trunk" after feathering. The whole weight of the rowing crew is shifted aft together, with the result that the stern is buried and the impetus again interrupted at the very moment when every extra ounce of weight tells, while the oarsman is brought to the full reach...
Until Donato scores the game-winner with 37 seconds left in sudden death...
Krayer's backhands a shot past Gopher goalie Robb Stauber in sudden-death to quiet the partisan Minnesota crowd and start a Crimson celebration. Donato is named tournament MVP. Two days later, MacDonald is awarded the Hobey Baker Award...
While the Yale crew were rowing on the harbor last Tuesday afternoon, W. H. Corbin suddenly fell back in his seat in a dead faint. The cause of this sudden illness is heart disease and Corbin will be kept out of the boat for some time.- Boston Herald...
...year's course in chemistry. Since graduation he has been on an extensive tour through Europe. His death was due to nervous and brain troubles. On Tuesday evening he wandered away from the house and disappeared. On the following day his body was found in the Delaware river. His sudden and unexpected death will be deeply felt by an unusually large circle of acquaintances both in college and in Cambridge...