Word: strides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discriminatory tax ... on the movement of ideas." Toronto's Tory Telegram said it was a "vicious" tax that "should cause concern in every editor's office." The Liberal Victoria Times called it "a discriminatory and authoritarian measure," the Vancouver News-Herald saw it as "a stride toward censorship," and the London Free Press, taking note of a similar affair on the other side of the border (see below), pointed out that "the same government which protested to the U.S. against discriminatory action against a Canadian brewery in Maryland is now discriminating against reading material from abroad...
Before the Navy match, the varsity will play Duke University April 7, and coach Jack Barnaby hopes that the team will hit its stride by this date so that it will be ready for Navy, an Eastern League match two days later. Navy is expected to have a strong squad, but the varsity will be favored if it develops well on the trip...
...unemployment but how to stretch the U.S. labor force enough to keep up with a population growth of 3% yearly and a standard of living that grows much faster. With every new production climb will come new demands for shorter hours, more leisure time. Once automation hits its full stride, the 30-hour week and the three-day weekend will not be far behind...
...varsity enters the meet with an even record. The squad started the season strongly, defeating M.I.T. and Amherst, but faltered and lost to Cornell and Columbia. Regaining its stride momentarily, it beat Pennsylvania before dropping matches to Princeton and Springfield...
...James D. Zellerbach, president of Crown-Zellerbach Corp., added a personal postscript: "I don't think a billion dollars a year is too much to earmark for this economic aid job. Certainly it is not a sum which the $400 billion U.S. economy cannot take easily in its stride . . . We should be interested in working with these peoples over a continuing period of time, helping them build up their countries instead of going in only to offset the Russians . . . That way we'll build up a great deal more good will...