Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually manage to "take things in my stride," but your cover picture of Hitler this week moves me to speak. TIME is very definitely my favorite magazine. However, with so many fine, decent and worth-while individuals to choose from, couldn't you find a more worthy subject...
...Varsity golfers took their first intercollegiate match in stride yesterday at Belmont, crushing a weakened Rhode Island State squad 8 1/2 to 1/2. Gill of the visitors gained a split with Captain Watty Dickerman of Harvard for the Rams' lone score...
...Roosevelt had become more than a phenomenon: by last week she was a portent. With U. S. industry beginning to hit its stride in the production of everything, with thousands of men going back to work, and consumption zooming, Mrs. Roosevelt warned housewives to start thinking about doing without new automobiles, aluminum kitchen utensils, etc., warned housewives' husbands to change those items on the family budget into Government securities. For once, Washington and Wall Street winced as one. The Wall Street Journal voiced a shadowy but growing fear: "Mrs. Roosevelt is increasingly active; watch her for tips on policies...
...Born of a famed conductor father (Leopold Damrosch) in Breslau, Germany, Walter Damrosch took his own opera company barnstorming in the U. S., toured with the old New York Symphony to towns which had never heard a concert. Shrewd, levelheaded, anything but temperamental, he could take it in his stride when a snow-heavy trap door rattled and banged through Debussy's placid Afternoon of a Faun (as it did one night in Utica, N. Y.), or when he found himself conducting on the strippers' runway in some cramped burlesque house. He was not above giving the Path...
...dynamic speaker, which launched the Majestic radio. Grigsby stock boomed, but bumptious Engineer Lear had been fired. Disappointed, he drifted until 1929, then on his own introduced the Motorola (first practical commercial radio for automobiles). Two years later he got interested in airplane radio, began to find his stride...