Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touch with the High Commissioner to the Philippines in Manila. That office and Paul McNutt's friends were ready with an efficiently stage-managed homecoming celebration. The timing was just about perfect. Now was the season for political bands, bunting, oratory, ballyhoo. Here was a candidate who could stride upon the national stage like a handsome Ulysses returning from labors abroad to hurl fear and respect into the hearts of Democracy's home-hugging suitors. It mattered not that the welcoming party was synthetic, that the Candidate's welcome to Indiana was rather warmer than its welcome...
...unhappy marriages or love affairs of adult life that were mainly responsible for neuroses. For the same experiences that normal .persons took in their stride were sufficient to bowl neurotics over. The foundations of neuroses, Freud discovered, were laid in the sex experiences of early childhood. Upon this astonishing fact, which Freud painstakingly confirmed in hundreds of cases, he built his famous theories of the libido (Latin for lust) and the Oedipus complex...
...with the 600 young men who don black robes and tassled caps this week. They make their last appearance as undergraduates. They pay their final respects to their beloved Harvard. Then the long marching line will stride out the gates of the Yard. They will surrender her o'er to "the age that is waiting before...
...Heptagonal Meet, however, he hit his stride and smashed through to a victory in the highs; Donahue, injured in the low hurdle trials, finished fourth. In the I. C. 4-A, meet Shields finished second; Donahue did not compete...
From Mexico came minor pictures by the masters, including Jean Chariot, and from Argentina and Chile a number of works lustrous with contemporaneity. Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic were represented by curiosities rather than quality, but the whole show was a sidelong stride toward the "intellectual interchange" agreed upon at the Lima Conference...