Word: striding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easily, carrying his weight of 170 Ib. as lightly as a box of matches, Golden Miller passed Delaneige and the four of them took the last fence together. Delaneige landed ahead of the others but 50 yd. past the jump, Golden Miller caught him again. Delaneige faltered in his stride, and Golden Miller, with a burst of speed, won the race, at odds of 8 to 1, by five good lengths. Thomond II was third and Forbra fourth, with six others, from the field of 30, plunging slowly in behind them. For the hardest steeplechase in the world, the turf...
...down the straightaway toward the tape, four yards behind Cunningham. Thirty yards from the tape, the gap began to melt. The finish duplicated the finish of the first race, except that the judges decided that this time not Bonthron but Cunningham was inches in front. Venzke again was a stride behind. The time (3:52.3) was a new indoor record...
...record out of danger just before Cunningham flashed out ahead of the field with Bonthron at his heels. Venzke joined them after a lap and the three ran five times around the track, each lap faster than the last. When they rounded the last turn, Bonthron was a full stride behind Cunningham. He made it up, an inch at a time, in the next 40 yards. Ten steps from the tape they were exactly abreast. Cunningham dived at the tape. Bonthron lunged without falling. The lunge won by inches, in 4.14. Bonthron jogged on around the track, came back...
...what is justly called their crucial game of the season, the Harvard skaters oppose an exceptionally powerful Dartmouth sextet tonight in the Boston Garden at 8.30 o'clock. The Green is expected to win; but if the Crimson pucksters hit their stride, the results will be just the opposite...
...spinster's life begins with her death sentence, ends with the interview in her girlhood that lost her her lover. This reversal of the time sequence has a natural advantage of giving the story a marked crescendo. With his second book, Author Coxe has come a long stride forward since his first novel (Passage to the Sky). First Love and Last is a cleanly written, intelligent, first-rate...