Word: stride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game was even during the first period; the score being 2 to 2, at the end of the first half. In the third period the Harvard team reached its stride, and four goals were scored by the forward line...
...sophomore year electrified the Big Green rooters and the 1928 season should have found him more brilliant than ever. Injuries last fall, however, prevented him from showing his stuff. The galloping Dartmouth back, also known in sporting circles as "Special Delivery" Marsters, seems to have hit his regular stride again this year. He can run, kick, and pass with the country's best. His hurdling experience has done him much good as a ball carrier and no team is safe when he's on the field. No matter where he has the ball, there is always the feeling that...
Although the Freshman team opened its season Saturday with a 6 to 0 defeat at the hands of Andover, there is no reason to believe that Coach French's proteges, will not hit their stride before long and uphold the reputation of Harvard's first-year teams. It was clearly a lack of organization, due to the brevity of the practice period, which enabled the schoolboys to pin a defeat on the Crimson...
...education, like fashion, has modes. The Harvard freshman of 1879 would have shuddered at the idea of a School of Business, but he was able to endure the thought of being defeated in athletics by Yale. The Harvard freshman of 1929 takes the School of Business in his stride, but when he sings "three cheers for Harvard, and down with Yale" he means it with all the fervor of his soul. Dr. Butler did not go into this phase of the development of American education, but doubtless it has manifested itself to him. N. Y. Times...
...Author. Cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newsgatherer, fingerprint expert at a penitentiary, college professor (Smith, Simmons), social worker (with Jane Addams in Chicago), are some of the things Thames (pronounced Tahm'-ez) Ross Williamson has been. Besides novels he has written textbooks on economics, sociology. His novels (Stride of Man, Run Sheep Run, Gypsy Down the Lane) are meant to constitute a U. S. panorama. He was born on an Indian Reservation near Genesee, Iowa, 35 years ago of U. S. parentage...