Word: stride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Down Massachusetts Avenue and through the Square it would stride, picking up disciples at every step. Past the Freshman Dormitories it would rollfe, with a carefree awing that caught the breath-taken Freshman in its surge...
...steps of the Royal Palace in Bucharest bounded Dr. Maniu with a stride swift and confident to the point of indecorum. Pompously the Three Regents of Rumania, who reign for Boy King Mihai, bade Peasant Maniu welcome and requested him to take steps to form a Cabinet...
...Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour of U. S. cities, beginning with Boston and Philadelphia...
...leader came into the stadium, the crowd roared and then became quickly silent; Dorando was swaying in his stride and his face was that of a man charging against some invisible monster who held his shoulders and would not let him move. His legs were red with running; they twisted under him suddenly like sticks of cinnamon and he lay crumpled in the dirt just beyond the bicycle track. A man named McAndrews ran out and helped him to his feet; Dorando staggered three steps and fell again; two men helped him up this time; the track was full...
Thus the Melchett month ended. Having possibly merged, having certainly titillated, Tycoon Melchett prepared to stride unmirthfully up the gangplank, take off his hat and put it on again, glance at the dark Palisades, and sail"for England...