Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easily outclassing Navy's swimming team, the crack Varsity mermen pulled out of the pool at Annapolis with a soaking triumph of 60-15 in an Eastern Intercollegiate League meet last Saturday. The Harvards took both of the relay races in stride and continued on to place first in six out of seven individual events. The Midshipmen placed first in fancy diving, alone...
Save in 1933, for the first exciting weeks of his term, Franklin Roosevelt has always succeeded in taking his problems in a very easy stride. Through his re-election campaign last year he had almost the air of coasting with his hands off the handlebars. But last week he gave clear signs of rolling up his sleeves and going to work like a man who knows he has a real job ahead. That job was to put through his plan for putting New Dealers on the Supreme Court...
...Charlies Fox to form a dependable 300-yard medley relay combination; but unless there is an upset, both Finnerty and Callahan will be padding in a bath of Crimson wash tonight, for Ulen's two stars, Cummin and Jameson, should take, the back and breast strokes respectively, in easy stride...
Last week Lady Rhondda went on: "In England we have stopped completely talking about the abdication of King Edward. After all it affected only one Englishman directly. That is why England took the abdication right in stride and passed over to the more important thing-the threat against the lives of every one of us over there...
...attack, used him as a decoy to suck in the defense while Bobby LaRue and Frank Patrick took the ball away. Eel-hipped Patrick's spinners knifed long gashes in the famed Washington line. LaRue pointed his knees at the Husky ends, hitting top speed in a stride or two while his interference took out the secondary defense as if they thought each play was a potential touchdown...