Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the fate of the Russian landing party was in doubt, but even if the German claim that it had been liquidated was true, it had done a good job. The thrust may have headed off a dangerous German advance by throwing the Nazis off stride...
...restrictions Gordon slapped on the Canadian public in 1941, designed to stop inflation, were the most stringent of any democracy's until Australia, in the face of Japanese invasion, went for all-out conscription. Canadians took them in their stride. But last week they wondered what next. In Montreal, their No. 1 economic controller announced that Canada's present competitive system must be replaced by one "based entirely on the criterion of maximum production...
...offense both waxed within him. In the early 1920s, when he was teaching other young sprouts at Den Helder, his favorite lecture was on the coming war between the U.S. and Japan. "When?" his students would ask him, and he would boom: "In this generation." Then he would stride to a blackboard map and chalk three Xs- on Pearl Harbor, the Panama Canal, San Francisco. "There," he would say, "the attacks will fall...
Whether Dartmouth, which took a big stride forward by defeating Cornell, 68 to 53, Saturday night, can shake off Princeton is another matter. Ossie Cowles' quintet did its best to quell the Tiger threat by turning back the New Jersey quintet on two occasions, but so far no one else in the league has ben able to halt the Nassau entry...
With our armed forces at one of the lowest ebbs of the war, this is probably the most unpopular time a post-war "planner" could pick to air his findings. But if anyone thinks that we will be able to take those problems in our stride when we come to them, he had better take a gander at what is going to happen to the so-called "industry of the future," when the smoke clears away...