Word: strides
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...field to open its season during the past five or six years, it has usually been the custom of the spectators to sit back in their seats and say to themselves, "We probably won't see much today, because Harlow-coached elevens rarely seem to hit their stride before November...
...oars on the Charles next Wednesday afternoon against three Crimson eights and a Business School boat. Harvard crew, after having gotten off to a weak start during the first term of the summer session due to lack of coaches and not enough launches, is finally hitting its old-time stride...
...they are in a number of choice spots. Charles Bell, as George, the wackiest actor of the lot, steals the first act with a wonderful set of lines; but after that he doesn't have much to do, even though everyone waits anxiously for him to swing back into stride. Mary Barthelmess, who plays Kate, the glamour girl of the outfit, suffers from the same sort of thing; her wisecracks pop like fireworks for a while, and then simmer along for the rest of the show...
...away pigeons and inquisitive strollers. Then newsmen spotted Bernie Baruch's tall, white-topped frame, his long, crossed legs revealing the inevitable high black shoes. The conference came to a reluctant end. Presidents Conant and Compton put on their coats. Tall Bernie Baruch walked, in his deliberate, soldierly stride, back to his suite at the Carlton Hotel...
...down into India. And it was Uncle Joe, oldest man in the crowd, who always led them. He acted as company commander, mess sergeant, guide, gun bearer, nurse. He kept the company at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps a minute; his men called it "The Stilwell Stride...