Word: striding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, took in his stride last week the fact that Austrian police had just confiscated an edition of his personal newsorgan, the Prager Presse...
This section of Cambridge life makes it look very petty, but you have still a large percentage of healthy, great-souled folk who stride toward their goal with unaverted eyes. If Harvard is in any way comparable to Cambridge, it will become less of a butt for yellow journalism when every freshman decides upon his goal and goes for it, without wondering what the other chap is going...
Groveling War Minister Hayashi apologized profusely to the Throne, took the entire blame upon himself, writhed with conscientious anguish. The Son of Heaven understood perfectly when the War Minister did not hand in his resignation that General Hayashi and his crowd had taken the assassination in their stride, remained Army top dogs...
Then followed a performance which, for sophisticated spectators in the crowd of 40,000 that jammed the wooden grandstand and bleachers of Good Time Park at Goshen, N. Y., stamped Greyhound as the greatest trotter seen on a U. S. track since Peter Manning, more than a decade ago. Stride by stride through the backstretch he cut down Warwell Worthy's lead. On the turn into the homestretch he passed her, swinging out, and the two came into the straightaway neck & neck. A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew...
...sister-in-law was trying to steal her son. The moppet was rescued by a mysterious young man who became devoted to him. This rescuer, too, turned out to be the Argentine millionaire. At this, the lovers penetrated the veils of mystery that had enveloped them. "In one stride he reached her. His fingers shook as he tipped up her face to the moonlight. He uttered a short sharp cry. His arms swept her close...