Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 6. In all children, the onset of adolescence causes a tremendous physical strain. From the age of 13 on, the physical efficiency of women does not increase, may even decline. Girls of 18 were exhausted by the 600-yard run, although children of 6 took it in their stride. The physical efficiency of boys continues to rise after 13 but at a much slower rate than before. "An important biologic hint: during puberty, unnecessarily strenuous activities such as rigid drill . . . must be avoided...
Making a desperate attempt to hit their stride after the devastating appearance they made against the Tigers Saturday, the Varsity baseball team will journey to Hanover to meet the Dartmouth Indians in the second of a two-game home-and-home series today...
With their country still nominally neutral, their war effort still far from hitting its full, expensive stride, U.S. citizens last week got a close-up view of what war taxation meant in dollars & cents, a possible preview of U.S. taxation in the uncertain years to come. In Ottawa, Canadian Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley stood up in Parliament to introduce the Dominion's biggest budget ever ($1,760,000,000), to suggest the biggest tax bill ($1,450,000,000) Canadians have ever paid...
...with the favored Bull taking the lead from Bob Jay on the second lap. Jay clung to his heels throughout the next six turns and on the final back stretch made his bid. They ran the stretch neck-and-neck but at the fast curve Bull's long, smooth stride wore down his opponent and Bull cut the string ten yards ahead...
Also asked of FORTUNE'S Forum was an opinion on rearmament progress. Results: 50.2% believed the program was or soon would be in satisfactory stride; 34.7% thought it was "spotty" or seriously behind schedule. Critics listed these chief causes of delay: attempts by labor unions to exploit defense needs (named as a primary or secondary cause by 66.3%); Government methods of placing defense orders, notably red tape and labor restrictions (64.2%); long-standing lack of mutual confidence between Government and business (62.9%); shortages of production equipment like machine tools (56.3%); lack of reasonably adequate military planning...