Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thrown off stride by the Praying Colonels from Kentucky, Coach Fisher's forces next journeyed to Princeton where the Tigers punched through a 10 to 3 victory, as hundreds got their gridiron thrills vicariously by watching electric "play-by-play" scoreboards at strategic places throughout the University. the Brown Bear, next week, could not contain the team that had been clawed by the Tiger, and in the pre-Yale tilt, the Crimson triumphed...
...reception. In pulpit and press, the newborn Popular Science Monthly was denounced as the devilish work of atheists and evolutionists. But blind Editor Edward Livingston Youmans, no atheist but a devout missionary from the world of science to the world of laymen, took the abuse in stride. "The work of creating science," he wrote in Vol. I, No. 1, "has been organized for centuries. . . . The work of diffusing science ... is clearly the next great task of civilization...
Today's match with the men from down the Charles will be the weekend's opener. On Saturday, the team will stride the Winchester Country Club's fairways against Brown and the Purple, and if all this pitching and putting results in a tie, Sunday will be used for a third and decisive match. Whichever squad ends up as king of the New England roost will proceed to the Eastern finals the following weekend...
Offensive. In Topeka, Kans., postmen, who take barks and bites along their routes in their stride, were justifiably annoyed when a small, impatient dog invaded the post office, bit a letter carrier...
Kentuckians were more worried about C. V. Whitney's Virginia-bred Phalanx, a flop-eared bay with a peculiar hobbyhorse stride. Nobody had heard much about him last year until the two-year-olds began to go a distance of ground; then Phalanx showed a liking for the sport. Says Trainer Sylvester Veitch: "He's not hard to handle, but he'd just as soon step on you as not." Smart but rather overbearing, Phalanx is built-to-order for the rough, mile-and-a-quarter Derby grind. He isn't fussy whether the track...