Word: stride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made, there is certain to be progress. In fact such progress is already in evidence in the extension of freedom of cuts at the University and at Princeton, a move toward the ideal of education by desire rather than by compulsion. But Columbia has taken the greatest stride of all in its plan, just announced, of abolishing mid-year and final examinations in certain trial courses and perhaps in the near future, all compulsory attendance at classes...
...fall handicap track meet. In the 220 Brooks at scratch finished a foot behind Bunker, who was given six yards and who made the distance in 23 seconds flat. With a five yard handicap Chapin took the 880 in 2m 01 4-5s, while Cutcheon, only a stride behind, covered the entire distance as scratch...
...eight months until the Democratic Convention. Now is the time for all good politicians to lay their plans for advancement. Seven or eight months is none too much time on which to prepare for a National Convention. With an eye on the future national politicians are swinging into their stride...
...much as can be expected after the rather poor showing of the early fall. It augurs well loss the Princeton game. For if Harvard was on the very edge of real effectiveness last Saturday against a relatively weak team, it is all the more likely to hit its stride a week later against a strong team. The College has known all fall that the football team had power; it has merely been a question when that power should become active and concentrated rather than latent and diversified...
...gracefully, like Addison. Some minuet, like Stevenson. Some swagger, like Marlowe. A great, great many simply walk. By courtesy we name all manners of proceeding " style " " literary style." The road to the White House is not identical with the pathway up Parnassus. Yet those who walk must have a stride, those who speak must have a style, and Mr. Coolidge has just presented the public with a new specimen of the Presidential literary gait-in 1,120 words he addressed the National Convention of the American Red Cross. By measurement, Calvin Coolidge covered 1,120 words in 62 sentences...