Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...movements, both of students'increasing capabilities and of evolution of collegiate government, have already attained great momentum; and a very strong resistance is all than can stop them. The rocks are too heavy and have been moving too long, and the hill is too steep to admit of any but very large and heavy barriers proving at all effectual...
...secs., followed by '85, while the '86 crew, coming in fourth, kept the position it took last May in the class races. The bow of the winning boat was stove against a stone pier at the finish, due either to the boat's momentum or the coxswain's elation over victory, and consequent carelessness. The rowing of Mumford, '87, stroke of this crew, won universal praise. The winners were: bow, Parker, '86; Dewey, '86; Brooks, '87; Rantoul, '87; Fisk, '87; Baum, 87; Burgess, '86; Mumford, '87, stroke; Oakes, '87, coxswain...
...oarsmen differs from the old one in these particulars: The reach forward is much longer, and the body is not swung so far back of the perpendicular. The slides are shorter, and on the recover the body is drawn up slower, which, it is held, does not stop the momentum of the boat as much as the quicker slide. The hands are thrown away from the body very rapidly. The oars are pulled through the water about as quickly as last year, however. Although the motions within the boat are not all so swift as formerly, yet the stroke...
...frenzy seized me. In rapid alternation my feet pressed the flying treadles. I leaned far forward, and rode at fearless speed. Great beads of perspiration fell with a dull thud to the floor. The air grew hot from the friction of my frightful velocity. With this terrible, ever-increasing momentum, something must happen. What that something would probably be became plainer every moment. The last of the line of iron posts stood exactly in front of the staring, awestruck couple. Six times I had swept round it like the breath of the wind; now, for the seventh time...