Word: strides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this style of play to a great extent. Yale's plays are not tricky. They are sound fundamental plays built upon power and team work. Now it is interesting to note that, with the excepting of Purdue, which not met Harvard before Coach Horween's team has struck its stride, no team has raised havoc with Harvard's forward wall through the medium of straight line football. Dartmouth ran wild around the ends, while Pennsylvania, using trick plays involving the hidden ball, succeeded in outwitting the Crimson forwards, but neither the Green not the Red and Blue...
Professor Clark, however, remarked that Harvard has taken a long stride towards the accomplishment of the purpose behind President Mason's proposal. Tutorial work, as well as the freedom granted honors candidates, who in their last year may take less than the prescribed number of courses, are steps leading towards the plan proposed by the Chicago president. Another step...
...previous night were asleep. The famed fountains exuded sparkling water in the sunlight as passers-by bought their morning newspapers and hurried to their cafe an lait at nearby restaurants. There was a faint bustle in the air as the capital began to get into its business stride...
...game was played yesterday down in the Business School Yard; the Crimson took it in its stride, The Dartmouth took it hard. The score was indeterminate, the game inconsequential the net results of inestimable value. It has been rumored abroad, and even in this country, that the titanic struggle would not be staged in the Stadium, and Lo, the poor Indian, it wasn't. It was staged, nevertheless, in the midst of an inordinate gloom. Clouds hung low, spirits lower; the results were utter depth. There was no farthest south...
...music critic of the New York World to compose the first really successful U. S. opera, The King's Henchman, he lifted his keen, stocky self from a platform of newspaper authority to a pinnacle of international fame. Ordinarily, the fortunates who are able to take such a stride, seldom retrace their steps. But, according to Mr. Taylor, "newspaper work is like drink. The only way for some to quit is to have left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last week with a declaration...