Word: strides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stealth, Goucher College girls have usually smoked if they wanted to. Their worst fear of detection has been that some righteous schoolmate might see and report then. Seldom has this happened for Goucher is a big college [enrolment: 985] in the middle of a busy city. Keeping in stride with other pragmatic women's colleges, last week Acting President* Hans Froelicher announced that as long as smoking did not "interfere with routine class work," or create fire hazards such as in dormitories, henceforth Goucher girls might smoke when, where, and as much as they pleased. Said...
Glenn Warner's Cardinals hit the stride that made them look like champions early in the season. They used a pretty new lateral pass spun out of a cross-buck in which five men handled the ball. Substitute Moffatt and Halfback Frentrup did most of Stanford's scoring. Unexpectedly defensive, California's Lorn kept punting out of danger. He passed to Thornton for one touchdown but needed more than that. Stanford 21, California...
When Al Marsters suffered what looked to spectators like a twisted ankle in his Yale game, he had really hurt his back, was out for the season. Copying his injured friend's high-kneeing stride. Bill Morton showed that there is more than one way to get a bear by the tail. Dartmouth 13, Brown...
...Harvard and Holy Cross elevens square off in their football tilt next Saturday the Crimson will have its strongest possible team on the field. Coach Horween and his aides are not taking the Crusaders lightly but will take the game with Coach O'Donnell's charges right in stride...
...wigs and flowing gowns sat Mr. Justice Corrie and Mr. Justice Defreitas. This was going to be an exemplary trial. The Arab prisoner would be grilled by an Arab prosecutor. There were plenty of prosecution witnesses, already lamenting and smiting their breasts in the corridor. With an easy sauntering stride and a smile of contempt for the witnesses Prisoner Sheik Taleb Maraka entered, was escorted to the dock by an armed policeman...