Word: stride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watched. A bet that both Miller and Fletcher will break a record tomorrow would not be a wholly reckless one in view of their recent performances. Various records have frequently tottered when either of them was on the track. Last week the triangular one fell before Miller's thunderous stride, and the world's time was twice equalled by the Crimson hurdler, Fletcher. Haggerty is also expected to show to advantage...
...Crimson is undefeated by a New England college on its own court, but the next three games will see the strongest sort of New England opposition in Hemenway. Connecticut Agricultural College and Yale will be the visitors of next week, and the University will have to maintain a fast stride to keep its record clear...
...string of victims. With only two defeats so far this season, both at the hands of intercollegiate League teams, Columbia and Dartmouth, and with only three games to be played before the Yale encounter next week, the five has been aiming to take tonight's game in its stride, and if it continues the form it has shown in the last three games, the recent athletic supremacy of the Brunonians should be broken...
...Hemenway Gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock. The Crimson leader has been out of action since he was hurt in the M.A.C. game, but he has been figuring in scrimmages this week, and his return should help the defense line considerably. The Crimson team seems to have hit its stride at last and the Rochester five will have to display some fast shooting to win tonight...
...Salvation Hunters. What was reported to be a seven-league stride in pictures turned out to be only a good broad jump. Josef Von Sternberg has done things that were never done before. He has created a picture all nickeled and new. His supply of novelty ran out. He based his technique on simplicity and symbolism. His story dealt with a cowardly youth who came to town with a girl and child to find their fortunes. As the girl is about to be seduced, he finally finds his courage and, with it, presumably, his future...