Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tufts, one of New England's pre-war basketball powers, is just regaining its stride, interrupted because it had no armed service officer training program. Two returnees, forward Spud Shapiro, holder of Tuft's scoring record, and guard Al Perry, are currently sparking the Jumbo five, which so far has defeated Devens but lot to Holy Cross in two starts. Probable Starting Lineups HARVARD TUFTS Brady RF Shapiro Davis LF Travis Hauptfuhrer C Brault Gannon RG Cooney Henry LG Perry
...pieces of the Gargantuan magnet for the new cyclotron arrived in Cambridge yesterday, nuclear research at the University took a seven-league-booted stride...
...Jack Dempsey, with whom he competed for headlines, Big Red had color. His post manners, in the days before starting gates, were atrocious. He liked to rear up on his hind legs and terrify the jockey with his lunging and plunging. But when Red settled down to his tremendous stride (once measured at 24 ft.), he broke track records, and the hearts of ordinary horses foolish enough to race against him. A bargain horse (he cost $5,000), Man o' War won 20 of his 21 starts in his two years of racing...
Dean Markham, used mostly on defense this year, appears to have hit his stride, and John Gorczynski, who strayed from the fold recently, is also showing well. Nick Rodis will probably play a lot of tackle against the Big Green, too, but the coaches will take every precaution to see that he doesn't reinjure himself...
...slipped between two cars, cut back and picked up a streetear for interference, and made it across the street without breaking stride. A string of Crimson flags and the usual knot of athletic characters in front of Leavitt & Peirce shifted his attention from the young thing in front of him to the matter of the afternoon's entertainment...