Word: striding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chosen subsea subjects, it has usually focused on a stricken boat on the seafloor, has peered in at anguished men gasping for air, sweating great globules of mineral oil (which looks more sweaty than sweat). The undersea mishap that climaxes Submarine D-1 is taken in a reassuringly even stride. Under the unruffled direction of Lieut. Commander Matthews (George Brent), everything goes like clockwork. In the equalizing chamber the crew stands chattering about horseraces and San Diego girls while water creeps up to their waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently the hatch cover is raised...
...enough, Widener presents another apparently insoluble problem in the front steps. For anyone of nearly normal stature, it is impossible to go straight up or down these steps with-all using a restrained gait that can be described only as "mincing." And if two steps are included in one stride, the general effect is that of a gallop, certainly unbecoming to the Widener at-phosphere...
...strait-laced North Shore suburb. On his mind were two things, the Law, which he was studying at night, and the violators of Law. Of the latter, most interesting to him were violators of automobile ordinances. With a flair for order, exactitude and investigation he was soon stepping full stride into an almost unexploited field. Last week the same young man, now Lieut. Franklin Martin Kreml, 34, of the Evanston Police Department, organizer of Accident Prevention Bureaus in 15 U. S. cities, opened the sixth Northwestern University Traffic Officers' Training School,* both bureaus and schools being his own invention...
...driving rain failed to break the Dartmouth-bound stride of the Crimson Varsity yesterday afternoon. In fact there was some doubt in the minds of the spectators as they huddled together in a wet and unhappy group on the practice field whether or not the players realized that it was raining. Towards the end of the afternoon Dick Harlow asked for a sheepskin coat, but aside from that complete Harvard indifference to the elements was unbroken...
...bouncing ball just happened to strike square on the toe of my shoe in stride...