Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later in the meet when the Crimson fell into, its stride, Wally Chubb easily took the 600, Bob Hopkins won the high jump at 5 feet, 10 inches, and Tom Holyoke and Bob Schneider doubled in the broad jump. Hudner and Herron in the 300 and shotput were the only Royal Blue first-place coppers...
Veteran Hugh Hyde, miles off in his shooting of late, hopes to get back in stride tonight. He'll be at one guard, with Freshman Mike Fansler, perhaps the best set shot artist on the squad, hoping to ring a few deuces from the other guard...
...Stride. The orders cut to the very heart of daily life; but,by & large the people took them in stride (although no one laughed when 21 oil and gas cars were derailed near Springfield, Ill.). No one looked for complete enforcement of the pleasure-driving ban. After the first day there were surprisingly few violators, but OPA investigators who swarmed over the streets and highways got elaborate excuses. Some direct results of the order...
...Kansas City, 72-year-old Edward Dixon, who had spent his life running the family grocery with Brother William, offered a thumbnail U.S. history: "Father survived the Civil War, my family carried the business through the Spanish-American War, and Will and I took the last war in stride and even drubbed the depression. But every time we turn around now there's a new form to fill out." So they folded up shop...
Most observers felt that the home team played one of its poorer games Saturday night. The fast pace kept up by Cornell seemed to throw Harvard off stride; and capitalizing on Crimson mistakes and with all-Eastern Intercollegiate League forward, Sam Hunter, gobbling up rebounds from the backboards, they won handily...