Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the ocean, the British companies continue to turn out flawless waxings, using the best materials and employing the latest technique. A recent stride has been the hush-hush releasing of high-frequency recordings done at 14,000 rather than the standard 10,000 kilocycles. At no extra cost, these recordings, so far only a half-dozen in number, feature bell-clear treble and bass tones and bring the overall effect of FM broadcasting to records...
Astronomers take the atomic bomb in stride. They know there are more terrible ways in which this planet might be destroyed. Last week Astronomer Robert Coles of the Hayden Planetarium summed up, in Sky and Telescope the latest "astronomical facts concerning the end of the world": About a ton of pulverized meteorites fall on the earth's surface each day, do no damage. But, points out Coles, the famed 1908 meteorite that fell in northern Siberia showed what a meteor could do. It knocked forests flat for 30 miles, blew a man off his doorstep 50 miles away...
...Washington, Communist-line Representative Hugh De Lacy, backed by James Roosevelt and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, reached the tape a stride ahead of political chameleon Howard Costigan, backed by Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. Hardworking, New-Dealing Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, appointed by Governor Mon C. Wallgren to fill his own unexpired term in the Senate, had little trouble winning renomination. Biggest worry of both Democratic incumbents: an unusually heavy Republican primary vote...
House athletics hit their stride this week with Inter-house softball games every afternoon, and yesterday the baseball league got under way when Dunster beat Kirkland in seven innings...
Cambridge Centennial festivities hit full stride last night with the Soldiers Field opening of the pageant "Pillars of Power," followed by a colorful fireworks display on the banks of the Charles River...