Word: faster
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Faster than e'er they went to prayers...
...week to ten days. The surface will be spaded up to a depth of one foot; eighteen inches will be removed from the inside all the way round, and the track carefully graded and rolled. We think that the track can be made from four to six seconds faster in the mile, and that this work will effect it. We omitted to say that the track will be carefully cindered to a depth of an inch, which will greatly add to its speed. An effort will be made to hold handicap games for "pewters" on several Saturdays in the spring...
...mark, but instead we find M. McFaul, a deaf mute of the Fanwood A. C., whose best effort for the year has been 10 1/2 sec., which was done on his own track and at the games of his own club, and who, away from home, has run no faster than 10 8/4 sec., is put on scratch in a100-yard handicap where three heats are run in 10 1/4 sec., and two heats in 10 sec. This is bad enough, but the quarter is still more curious...
...this age of steam, the telegraph, and telephone, affairs move faster than they did a century ago, and there is no time to be spared on the proser; certainly not in busy Cambridge, though here the species is not yet extinct, as the experience of many students will attest...
...they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing 32. At the beginning of the second mile Yale gained about a length on our crew by pulling 34 to the minute, but lost it before the end of that mile. The Harvard crew did not pull a faster stroke at this point, but they pulled a stronger one. The third mile saw Harvard pulling 36 to the minute, and Yale, four lengths behind, at the same old stroke of 34. This part of the race was enjoyed intensely by the crowds on the grand stand. All we could...