Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cupid-encrusted office at No. 32 Nassau St., Manhattan, where Jay Gould used to play financial chess with railroads for queens, hulking old Leonor Fresnel Loree has sat growling into his beard for seven years, trying to thwart a checkmate. Occasionally he would stride over to a railroad map of the U. S. on which a great Loree System was only a dotted line, and stand there cursing softly. Or he would sit slumped behind his desk banging a stack of five-dollar gold pieces from one hand into the other and express himself bitterly to curious interviewers: "Hell...
...week about something new -"endowed salads" and "vitamin tickets." In the two university cafeterias 300 co-eds could chomp a red apple a day, gratis. On each table there were free bowls of beets, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, turnips and cabbage, in olive oil. Digesting these, the young ladies might stride about wintry Boston, well fortified with healthful vitamins...
This sketch for a real live novel has all the earmarks of a well-written, readable book, but it adds up to nothing much. Most novelists jump the gun, make at least one false start. Black Cabin indicates that Author Green Peyton (Wertenbaker) may have a stride worth hitting...
...circular track 25 centimeters in diameter a housefly and an ant ran a race. The stride of the ant was 5/10 millimeters in length; three of his strides equaled one of the housefly's. In two minutes the ant made 2,000 strides; the housefly 500. Given: 1) the race was for 300 meters; 2) after eight hours the housefly began to cheat by flying to the point on the race track diametrically opposite to him, in the space of one second every alternate round, from that minute on; 3) at the same instant the ant sprained...
...about which everyone knows. Generally speaking it has raised Soviet production above the pre-Plan level, which level was from 4% to 37% higher than the pre-War level and was far above the pit of stagnation in Russia's famine year. The Plan has marked a tremendous stride toward industrializing Russia and toward proletarianizing Russians, but the Plan has fallen and is falling short of many of its goals...