Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conscription has the sole advantage of preparing the country for future contingencies. Against this must be set the many trenchant disadvantages of the plan. The first and most important is that inauguration of military training would be the biggest possible stride towards participation in the present European war. A huge army is unnecessary for hemisphere defense at present and would only serve to raise the military mentality to the ascendency. A natural concomitant of conscription would be the breeding of a fatalistic attitude. War would take on, for the American people, an inevitability which it does not merit. The American...
...Goethals, out until a week ago with a sprained ankle, has also nearly hit his normal stride again in the hurdles. He will run beside Captain Don MacKinnon in a desperate effort to defeat the strong Eli combination of Squire and Greene...
...Government slowly sold its wartime fleet, the U. S. built not one vessel for the transoceanic trade. Four years ago the Roosevelt Administration hatched the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, an outright subsidy to shipowners. For them, the Maritime Commission began a shipbuilding program which swung into full stride last year. So far 46 vessels have been launched, 37 put into service. Besides the 118 now on order, contracts for 358 others will be let in the next five years...
Look at it this way. Since 1931, technicians have made great advances in recording facilities and acoustics, consequently enabling orchestra leaders to improve on the general quality and balance of the music they record. Nor have the arrangers been asleep. Fletcher Henderson didn't hit his stride until 1934. Since then not only he, but many others including Eddie Bauter, Mary Lou Williams, By Oliver, Eddie Durham and Glenu Miller, have turned out orchestrations that are a vast improvement on the jerky, jazzy arrangements of the twenties (Duke Ellington, of course, is an exception...
Down the homestretch they galloped, long-striding Bogskar opening more & more daylight with each stride, crossing the finish line four lengths ahead of MacMoffat, ten lengths ahead of Gold Arrow...