Word: stride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smug streets glide sleek gleaming Rolls-Royces, lean sport cars, great grey-lined limousines. Liveried chauffeurs pull up gracefully in front of buildings gay or sombre with grey, blue, green, yellow, black, purple, red-flags of varied designs. Out step pompous diplomats, flick imaginary dust from immaculate morning coats, stride self-conciously up their embassy walks with top-hats a-glinting in the morning sun. Ah!-to be a diplomat! Last week Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, dean* of all Washington diplomats, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII of Spain, resigned. His place will...
...Second team that, meets the Yale Seconds at New Haven has had a checkered career, playing good ball at times, only to fall down at crucial moments. At present, the Parent coached team seems to have hit its best stride, defeating the strong Huntington team in a twelve inning game on Wednesday...
They were almost at the mile now; it was time for the lightning bay to make his bid. But what was this? Another colt, far back in the ruck, had begun to gain with an effortless, terrific stride, two jumps to one. Nobody could see the jockey's colors. Was this one of the unknowns - Light Carbine, Roy crofter? They came around the last corner into the homestretch; the strange horse wore E. R. Bradley's silks - he was Bagen-baggage, running-mate of Bubbling Over. Mr. W. R. Coe looked out, ashen-faced, from his box; Pompey...
...hinge the outcome of the duel. Paulsen has done under 49 seconds, the new dual meet record established by Kane against Dartmouth last Saturday. The Crimson runner negotiated a wet track, in the rain to break the tape well ahead of the Green runner. Should he hit his best stride against the Blue, Harvard may well pick up two more points in the 440-yard dash, which would give the Crimson more latitude in the field events, where, according to the CRIMSON'S figures. Harvard will have to be at its best to stand off the Elis...
Getting back into its victorious stride yesterday afternoon on Divinity courts, the University tennis team overwhelmed Lehigh, 9-0. The feature match was Captain Whitbeck's three set victory over Sullivan, the Lehigh number one man. Sullivan, a double victor with Tilden, the national champion, at Winchester last week, defeated Van Ryn, the Princeton ace earlier in the season Whitbeck's victory is particularly notable since he was defeated by Van Ryn last...