Word: striding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees on July 4 were ten full games ahead of them and, to all appearances, pennant winners. The Detroit Tigers, handicapped by the illness of their catcher-manager. Mickey Cochrane. who had a nervous breakdown when his team failed to hit its stride at the season's start, were a bare percentage fraction ahead of the Washington Senators...
...precision, No. 2 (Beverly Rockhold) and No. 3 (Charles Gruneisen) held the lead. At the final touch-off Texas' anchor-man (Harvey Wallender) had a five-yard start over Temple's Eulace Peacock. Fifteen yards from the finish Negro Peacock suddenly leaped into the air, broke his stride, hopscotched over the line in agony with a pulled muscle. But the Texans deserved their victory. Time was 0:41.1, a half-second better than the meet record. Next day the same foursome, together since freshman year, smashed the 880-yd. record with the time...
...time stride, went along with Mechem and Cutter to be a double-scorer. Captain Freddy Moseley fittingly enough tallied the last of the goals by players who will not be back next year, and the Sophomore line signified its intention to carry on the torch as George Roberts whipped in a neat concluding tally...
...nine o'clock every morning except Sunday a herd of scholars scampers hastily up the steps of Widener Library, swishes through the turnstiles, rounds the marble stairways in stride, and finally deposits an overnight book on the Reading Room desk. The return journey is completed with equal haste, minus a few tedious and precious minutes while the unsmiling book inspector carefully Philo Vances every brief case, lawyers bag, and simple booksatchel. Such expenditure of energy and valuable pre-nine-o'clock time is not only highly inconvenient but unnecessary...
This was too much for the Sovereign Salesman. Muttering "very nice," he streaked past without breaking his stride...