Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ration-ridden British can take almost any kind of shortage in stride. One that they are at least beginning to lick is a serious shortage of clergymen. Two world wars have left the Church of England with a 4,000-minister deficit (not counting chaplains still in uniform...
Juleps & Blue Grass. Ever since Aristides took the first Derby (worth $2,850) in 1875, the race has been an exasperating, unpredictable grind. It comes early in the year, before most three-year-old colts (and fillies) have really begun to find their adult racing stride. The distance is a tough mile and a quarter for youngsters used to six-and seven-furlong sprints, with perhaps a couple of mile or iVio races under their hoofs. The Derby has ruined more promising horses than it has made...
...available, but, generally, war seems to have brought about a change in the outlook of many students, as evidenced in their choice of studies. Some who were practical-minded have grown idealistic; some of the idealists have become practical. A third group apparently took the stresses of conflict in stride, emerging matured but essentially unchanged...
...members on the slopes of New England, the club plans within the next few months to take a trip to the St. Elias Range in the Yukon and to conduct a number of expeditions to local rock and ice areas as the club swings back into its peacetime stride...
Olsen, with his long stride, managed to shake off everyone but Dartmouth's McLane. The two raced neck & neck through the New Hampshire woodland, along a hillcrest, over rolling meadow. Then Olsen called on his last reserves, forged ahead, won by 14 seconds. But McGill still trailed Dartmouth by two points. All depended on the last event-the jump...