Word: strides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...m.p.h. Getaway and pick-up surpassed many another type of machine. Works. Detroit wiseacres said that production on the new model would be kept down, at first, to around 300 per day. The Ford statement, however, said that all Ford plants were retooled, indicating a readiness to stride out rapidly towards the old Ford supremacy in mass production if the new models -and "moderate" prices-are well received...
...westward from the U. S. President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union declared that his company was ready to lay a transpacific cable like its two new Atlantic cables. With radio so enormously developed laymen marvelled that so shrewd a businessman as Newcomb Carlton was taking so ambitious a stride in the cable field. But the science of communication has developed no faster than the demand for communication. The press especially will file heavily on Mr. Carlton's western extension and he sees the sun of U. S. trade fast rising in the orient...
...what would become of them if Samuel Insull (purveyor of light, heat and trolley rides to most of Chicago and its purlieus) should decide to take the city's taxicab situation in hand. That was the rumor, vague and unelaborated but still striking-that Samuel Insull would stride among the Chicago taxicab companies, either to compete with them or absorb them as one more of his big utility schemes...
...church she became ecstatic, ran up and down the aisles, clapped her hands, shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord!" At length, convinced of her "mission," she set out to crusade against the Demon Rum. Then began her saloon-smashing career. Almost six feet tall, weighing 175 pounds, she would stride through the swinging doors of Kansas saloons* smash windows, mirrors, bottles, glasses; upbraid bartenders and patrons. In a Wichita saloon in 1900 she eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that the picture was an insult to his mother. As the town marshal escorted her to the station...
...Plympton Street regulars were opposed in this contest by a team composed of editors who favor a War Memorial Chapel. After being in hot water for three innings, F. V. Field '27, on the slab for the first string outfit, hit his stride and began to breeze them over in a way which completely mystified the opposing batters. In the fifth Worcester beat out a bunt, Jones singled, and Smith walked. Magowan then smashed out a sizzling drive which rose higher and higher as it went, finally disappearing altogether...