Word: striding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judging from the comparative times of advantages and falls, Chicago deserved to win the meet more than the Harvard wrestlers who have been thrown out of stride by mid-years. J. H. Crandon '33 proved to be too much out of condition after his long absence from the mat to offer real competition to his rival...
...function, Board Chairman George M. Reynolds of National Credit Corp., privately financed at President Hoover's instigation last October to advance up to $500,000,000 to shaky banks, announced from Chicago that his agency would gradually cease operations when R. F. C. got into its full stride. Since its incorporation, said he, the pool had made 750 different loans totalling $153,000,000.* Of the 575 borrowing banks, 17 have failed; no one could say how perilously close to failure had been the other 558 banks which N. C. C. had helped...
February: Just getting into his stride, Premier Laval leaned on the stooped shoulder of old Brer Briand in Chamber debate, backed him in pledging France to observe the One-Year Naval Holiday proposed by Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy...
...times in a row. She won it for the fifth time last week. In the Cohasset, L. I. show last summer she won her 50th championship. Fifteen hands high, she holds her plump neck punctiliously arched, lifts her hoofs in a gait which is higher, slower and shorter in stride than that of a standard bred horse. She has four white stockings, a white star on her forehead and a white snip on her nose. Her black tail is cropped; on her black mane, in the show ring, are knots of red wool to accent the curve of her neck...
...down to Yale. Go to the football game and take it as you like to take it, quietly or noisily, modestly or brashly. And go to the dances and to Slippery Eddie Kelley's in Waterbury. Take it all in stride...