Word: stride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With two successive defeats to make up, and with the opening game of the Big Three series coming on Saturday, the University baseball team will try to get back into their winning stride against the nine from Bates this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Saturday the team will face the strong Tiger squad, winner of 12 of its 17 starts...
After suffering defeat at the hands of Princeton last Saturday, the University tennis team will try to get back into its winning stride at the expense of Lehigh on the Divinity Courts this afternoon...
...athlete with little more than persistency. Berna was an Ithaca High School boy. He first reported for track in his senior year. He was one of the also rans on his school team. It was not until his senior year that he developed anything like a decent stride. Then he ran the fastest two miles ever credited to an American collegian. Furthermore, in the race in which he set the present collegiate record of 9.17 4-5, he ran five feet out from the pole, which means that he ran at least 30 yards over the two-mile distance...
...among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest paralysis. To round out the quatrefoil of his quadruped characteristics, the Earl of Birkenhead habitually walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete, he reveals the brilliance and supreme persuasive power which have often made Conservatives favor him for the post of Premier...
...down a runway in Madison Square Garden. Already he had cleared the bar at 11 ft., 11 ft. 6 in., 12 ft., 12 ft. 6 in., and it had been announced that he would try for a super-world's record of 13 ft. 6 in. He took one stride, two strides on the runway, then came a splintering crash, he lurched sideways, went sprawling into the landing pit. A board had broken under his foot. He arose, limped to a bench. A masseur got to work on his ankle, a carpenter repaired the runway. In a moment...