Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scripps once said: "I'm going to have my troubles with Bob, but . . . when he gets his stride, he will be more like me than either Jim or John...
Running on boards is different from running out of doors. Learning how to adjust his stride to the greater spring the track gives on indoor boards does npt completely solve the problem of the runner. He must master the banked turns. No matter how long or limber are his legs on the straightaway, unless he acquires a correct balance around turns, leaning neither too much nor too little, unless he shortens his stride with the inside leg, the runner should stay out in the open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion...
...last year by the Harvard relay runners. The injury to Captain Munroe in the H-D-C track meet on February 21 and subsequent changes made in the quartet have lessened crimson chances in that event until the new team can be given a chance to break into its stride...
...Crimson players were jumped at the start by an eager Husky team, who rolled up a two-point lead before the University got into its stride. Throughout the first half the game was a tight battle between the two teams, but the period ended with a score of 15 to 14 in favor of the home team...
...fragile-appearing as befits an opera heroine who must die of grief, graceful, chicly costumed. Her first singing was uneven but after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing off-key), a high E flat clearly sung...