Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missourians of Thomas Benton (see cut, p. 31), calling up the hard-eyed, banjo-playing, riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent art of John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time and who took machinery in his stride. "Look at those trains!" he said, as he painted Turtle Creek Valley with the green hills and the red brick houses in the background, beyond the smoky railroad yards. "Look at those trains, gaily defying me to paint them right...
...Plymouth to the line and given Chrysler a formidable competitor to Ford and Chevrolet. Competent, profane, full of studious curiosity, he had handled the complex problems of the Dodge plant-sales, labor, the thousands of trivia that pour over the desk of a big corporation executive-in his unruffled stride. In Walter Chrysler's mind there was no doubt that K. T. Keller had the mental heft to steer a motor giant which in the year just past had sold $516,830,333 worth of automobiles, had given employment to 59,000 workmen...
...Lords in Scout shorts. Commented the London Evening Standard: "His costume aroused little comment. Ever since Lord De la Warr entered the House during the last war in the bell-bottomed trousers of an able-bodied seaman, their lordships have learnt to take many strange uniforms in their stride...
That they are thus shown up in their own unkindly light is in itself an important achievement. Once out in the open they are farther along toward the grave. And having taken such a tremendous stride, the University is now completely and irrevocably committed against them...
...fleet captain with the rakish stride figured in all of the scores. Four times he was on the tossing end of conceded touchdown pass plays, having Joe Gardella, Gene Lovett, Charley Spreyer and Jim Devine on the receiving end. After they had eluded the secondary, Coach Dick Harlow's whistle brought the ball back to midfield each time...