Word: stride
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among old buildings, the implicit history and sense of continuity are both reassuring and invigorating. The graceful proportions of facades are not arbitrary but the result of craft wisdom worked out over generations of trial and error. The scale of buildings and streets, based on human size and pedestrian stride, makes intuitive sense. Indeed, old sections of cities embody all sorts of folk and classical principles concerning residential density and building size and materials and zoning. In the very arrangements of alleys and building setbacks is a time-tested plan, a kind of urban genetic code...
Despite remaining undefeated, Harvard has yet to hit its late-season stride. After playing tournament-quality soccer last weekend against Brown, the Crimson had one of its worst games in a 2-1 triumph Wednesday at UMass...
...market appeared to take in stride the fact that no final decision had been made by the close on whether the British government would go through with a public offering of its remaining stake in British Petroleum...
...Harvard men's soccer team heads into the second half of its regular season with today's match-up against Dartmouth at Ohiri Field, but Crimson Coach Mike Getman knows his team hasn't yet hit its mid-season stride...
...midmorning in Las Vegas, and already the desert heat is shimmering wetly on a running track not far from the casino strip. Here Bill Cosby is hurling himself through a series of sprints, his sturdy 6-ft. frame showing the form that won collegiate championships three decades earlier. The stride is long and smooth, and the pace is brisk through 300 meters (43 sec.) and 600 meters (1:48). Cosby beats his target times and beams with satisfaction. He rewards himself with a Cuban cigar the size of a relay baton and sets a faster goal for tomorrow...