Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bunched field to take the lead after 50 yards. Close behind him at the turn was a little Pennsylvania man, Bill Carr, who had started in the sixth lane. Rounding the turn, Eastman shook off the pack but he could not shake off Carr. Geared to a quicker stride than Eastman, Carr, who had never before last week run a quarter-mile in less than 48 sec., caught the Stanford man in the last 100 yards, beat him to the finish by a step...
...likes until three hours before a meet when he gobbles steak, tea, custard. Calm, almost lethargic, Eastman's style of running is in character. He contradicts the Indian maxim which says: "White man, body make legs go; red man, legs make body go." His shoulders lilt with his stride but his body does not move and strain, his glasses never wobble on his nose. As Indians are supposed to do, he toes in slightly and, unlike most fast runners, tracks in an absolutely straight line. Eastman lost none of his prestige by losing one race last week. Coaches...
...clearly between De Bruyn and Hennigan. For five of the six miles the two ran almost shoulder to shoulder with Kyronen, who liked the cool weather, holding on behind them. Then, in the last mile. De Bruyn began to work his well-muscled legs faster in their choppy stride. He was 200 yd. ahead at the finish, with Hennigan second, Kyronen third, De Mar 18th, McLeod 27th. Far behind McLeod straggled a sad marathoner named Charles E. Bradford of Lowell, Mass. He was seized by a policeman as he finished the race, hustled to court where his wife was suing...
Phar Lap was huge?16 hands, 3 1/2 in.? with a huge leisurely stride. He was a seven-year-old in the U. S., a six-year-old in Australia.* He was the son of Night-raid, out of Entreaty. When Phar Lap was shipped from England to Australia in 1927, he was sold at auction for $800. In 51 starts in the next four years he won 37 races, finished second thrice. Australians considered him the greatest racehorse in the world. Last winter with five attendants and enough New Zealand oats to last three months, Phar Lap crossed...
University of Missouri one day last week. How gay and glamorous the affair would be, the big annual ball of the Engineering School! How red-blooded and stalwart the engineers, who stride the campus daily in corduroys and stout boots, seemingly oblivious to the admiring glances of the coeds! A fig for their rivals the law-students, who garb themselves nattily, strut with walking sticks! Mary Butterfield hummed gaily, her thoughts on the triumph, that would be hers when the engineers crowned her Queen of the Ball. About mid-afternoon she left the sorority house...