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Word: strides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly the Crimson has hit its real stride and can again skate over the Elis but the past has shown Harvard and Yale particularly favorable to the underdog. And Yale is in that favored position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Evenly Pitted Harvard and Yale Sextets Meet in Garden Tonight | 3/13/1935 | See Source »

...whose The Whole Town's Talking last week had its Manhattan première (see below). Now 40, Scenarist Riskin was brought up in Baltimore, attended Columbia University for two years. After 15 years as a cinema director, playwright, free-lance producer and scenarist, he struck his stride with Lady for a Day, has since become one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers.* He lives at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, plays expert tennis, writes longhand. Says he: "In writing for the stage there is an enormous satisfaction. . . . Adapting stories for the screen is often a thankless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Academy Awards | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...walking along Quincy St. with one foot in the gutter and one on the curb stone. His hat was gray and somewhat battered. His coat was hanging loose and unbuttoned. He seemed to count his steps as he climbed and sank at each irregular stride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/6/1935 | See Source »

Since all these rights have been commonplace in Capitalist countries for generations, observers found President Mussabekov's proposal for Soviet progress mildly paradoxical. Another great stride was taken some years ago when piece work, abolished in Russia after the Revolution, was restored by Stalin. Last week Soviet editors soon got wind of popular rumors that "free speech" is going to be granted along with the secret ballot. Promptly scotching these rumors, State newsorgans stated that Russians will not be granted free speech-the one thing no dictator dares to grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Progress by Paradox | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...much as pausing in his stride, Realmleader Adolf Hitler accepted his smashing Saar plebiscite victory (TIME, Jan. 21), passed on last week to Nazidom's next objective: to force the Great Powers to recognize and assent to the Fatherland's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: On to Rearmament | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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