Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first turn, trotting in the clear by a length, she suddenly saw the shadow of the rail across the inside of the track. When she broke nervously into a gallop and was taken to the outside, the leaders rushed past her. Driver Ben White got her back into stride, then set out after the, field, caught it on the second stretch. Tired by a blistering quarter-mile after her break, Mary Reynolds led Brown Berry to the last turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck and set out after her. As Mary spun around the turn, Driver...
This shot, according to reporters covering the Conference, threw Mr. Churchill badly out of his stride. "He never seemed to recover from this setback and failed to make his expected 'fighting speech...
...metre run. Next day he started out by winning the 1,500-metre race in 3:54. An hour later he was ready for a crack field in the 800-metre final. Eastman moved up to the lead in the home stretch, with five men bunched a stride behind him, Bonthron last of the five. While Eastman and Keller of Pittsburgh thought they were fighting for the lead, Bonthron took the outside lane by the Stadium wall and ran past the field to win by four yards. ¶ The night before the meet, High Jumper George Spitz dropped into...
...would have kept the puck myself." Bill was Bill Cook, oldest active player on the Rangers, leading scorer of the National League, finishing what he thinks may be his last season of hockey before he retires to his Saskatchewan wheat farm. He took the puck without breaking his stride, feinted to bring tall Lome Chabot away from the Toronto net, then flipped the puck over Chabot's shoulder for the goal that ended the game 1 to 0, the series...
...from a rare earth metal. This he cooled to about -306.4° F., when he began wrenching the molecules with a huge magnet which University of California owns. Liquid helium absorbed and withdrew the magnetically generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert. But Absolute Zero must be unattainable on earth except in a perfect vacuum, for where...