Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Cambridge University, March 22, Lent Meeting. - 25-mile race, J. F. Darrell (Caius), 1 h. 34 min. 11 sec.; 5-mile handicap, J. E. Howe (Clare) (350 yards), 17 min. 7 sec.; 100-yards slow race, A. Trotter (Trinity), 2 min. 28 sec.; two-mile race, Hon. I. K. Falconer (Trinity), 6 min. 29 sec.; ten-mile race, Hon. I. K. Falconer (Trinity), 34 min. 32 sec.; mile-race, A. Trotter (Trinity), 3 min. 10 sec.; consolation two-mile handicap, G. Sampson (Clare...
...Oxford crew, although lighter, is said to be much the faster, and rows in better form than the Cambridge crew, which pulls too short a stroke, feathers badly, and is quite slow...
...circumvallation to be drawn round its sacred citadel under the alleged authority of any record or of any organization. This is what I mean to express in these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet of rhythms stepping in measured cadences over a mosaic pavement of rhymes, and which not rarely combines a minimum of thought with a maximum of labor...
Columbia started at 39 and Harvard at 35 strokes a minute, the former straining for the lead, and the latter doing steady, strong work. At first Columbia obtained a slight advantage and led by three yards at the railroad bridge; but when the lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow and steady work had brought her a foot or two ahead, and now this lead was steadily increased. Columbia struggled desperately, and hung on for another half-mile, and up to that point, a little below the first mile-flag, she gave Harvard a hard race. Here the two boats...
...start, - Princeton in the mean while piling up errors in rapid succession, - until our score reached old-time figures, while Princeton's, through her inability to hit Ernst, remained severely modern in its proportions. The game was rendered still more tedious and uninteresting by the tire-somely slow movements of Princeton's pitcher, who, without making it at all effective, busied himself with a purposeless churning of the ball until one grew nervously weary in waiting for his labored delivery...