Word: strides
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Peterson stated that Goldfarb brought up a basic weakness of the Council. He quickly added, "I think, however, we should take our weakness in stride...
...local problems. Nonsmoking, nondrinking, Lee has no advice to thrust on those who do. He likes to tell of one friend who drinks deeply and then often calls Lee up to tell him what's wrong with S.M.U. Football is another thing that President Lee takes in stride. It does not worry him overmuch that S.M.U. consistently has one of the best football teams in the U.S. Texas likes good football, and so does Umphrey...
...coach Harry Cleverly said that the Terriers really hit their stride in the Dartmouth game, played in Hanover, whereas the Crimson looked tired and listless in defeat against the same team two days later. The Indians, bouncing back hard from the B.U. defeat, held Welland's boys scoreless until the last 30 seconds of the game...
When winner George Rhoden forced Cornell's Charley Moore to break stride on the final turn, Berman passed Moore, Hugo Malocco, and the rapidly fading Irv Howe of Boston College. Rhoden won by a comfortable four yards in 1:12.5, while Maiocco came up fast to edge out Berman...
...remote and barren plateau northwest of Las Vegas known as Frenchman Flat. It was the first atomic explosion in the U.S. since the historic test at Alamogordo in 1945. Most Nevadans, warned earlier in the week by the announcement of a non-nuclear "dry run," took the explosion in stride, though it rattled windows, startled early-rising tourists, and was heard as far as 150 miles away...