Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this program is not Harvard's first venture into the field of industrial education. It is one of the foremost attempts of any kind, however, on the part of an educational institution to create a well informed labor group. Highly praiseworthy for this reason, the program is a great stride along the path that must be followed if the white dove is ever to be seen flying over industry. Realistically aware of conditions that exist, Dean Donald K. David of the Business School said that a primary consideration in the post-war period must be the creation of an educated...
...twelve years The MacPhail had built himself one of the gaudiest baseball reputations in all the game's 103 years. He broke in to baseball in 1930 as owner of the minor-league Columbus Redbirds. Three years later he hit his stride as general manager of the Cincinnati Reds. He painted the park orange; introduced usherettes and night baseball; groomed a slick radio announcer, Red Barber (TIME, Sept. 28), to sell the club to radio listeners; founded a farm system that brought Cincinnati two pennants and a world championship...
...Mayor has not responded in kind. Suspicious of the press from the first, he nonetheless got along well enough with them for a while. Then Butch decided to abandon regular press conferences. The occupants of "Room 9" (City Hall pressroom) took that in stride and kept the copy rolling. He got mad at a reporter, tried and failed to persuade his publisher to fire him. Warier after that, Room Niners still kept up the coverage...
...field to open its season during the past five or six years, it has usually been the custom of the spectators to sit back in their seats and say to themselves, "We probably won't see much today, because Harlow-coached elevens rarely seem to hit their stride before November...
...oars on the Charles next Wednesday afternoon against three Crimson eights and a Business School boat. Harvard crew, after having gotten off to a weak start during the first term of the summer session due to lack of coaches and not enough launches, is finally hitting its old-time stride...