Word: strides
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Sixty representatives of 51,000 Massachusetts college and university students gathered at Smith College over the weekend and took another long stride toward formation of a National Student Organization by setting up a regional branch...
Returning to the attack five days later, Jewell had his own name for Picasso's latest period. "This, as of course everyone knows," said he, "is the phase of the monstrous distortions. . . . Now, distortion itself I can quite take in my stride. But I must repeat with firmness, even though I alone be out of step, that Picasso's painting of about the last 15 years has me stymied. . . . [It] appears to be, in the main, just mediocre or bad painting...
Under the guidance of Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant dean of the College and Graduate Secretary of PBH, new committees, such as the Harvard Ticket Agency and Information Bureau, came into full swing, while old ones, such as the Social Service Committee, hit their stride once more...
Died. Grace Moore, 45, bubbling, blonde hillbilly girl (selfstyled) who became one of the Metropolitan Opera's first-string divas (Mimi, Tosca), took Hollywood in stride (One Night of Love), toured operatic and concert stages the world over; in a plane crash; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
China took a long stride toward democracy last week, and a long stride toward fulfilling the purposes of its late great revolutionary leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen. Like the ascent to his hilltop tomb, which China's leaders make reverently each year, China's climb had been long and hard. Dr. Sun had foreseen a period of national "tutelage" under the Kuomintang (National People's Party) until direct power was returned to the people through constitutional rule. On Christmas Day, in the third reading of China's new Constitution, that democratic return was inaugurated...