Word: striding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laid across his knees. Conservative, sentimental, Editor Dennis personifies the News, a relic of the days of Founder Lawson, the days of Writers Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, George Ade, Keith Preston and Dramacritic Amy Leslie (TIME, Sept. 8). Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith, lean, droop-mustached, with a stride like a camelopard, will continue to run the news staff as he has done for 30 years. He is often visited by his one time Reporters Carl Sandburg (who still writes a column) and Ben Hecht or Critic Hughes, either in his office or at Schlogle's "literary" restaurant...
Three days later, after the course had had a chance to dry off and the golfers a chance to rest, play was resumed. Alliss found his stride quickly, led by four strokes at the end of the fifth hole. By the fourteenth Hagen had squared the match, then took the lead at the next hole. From there on it was a seesaw: At lunch Alliss led by a stroke. One up at the long (460 yd.) sixth in the afternoon, Hagen played his second shot into the woods, skimmed his third between two lines of spectators to plump his ball...
...parting we pause, then quicken our stride...
...travelled the hard road from private soldier to Shah of Persia (TIME, July 22, 1929). He does not propose to be another Amanullah of Afghanistan, to be driven out for being "too modern," "too Christian" (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929). He is not a Christian. With relentless military stride His Moslem Majesty made for the Moslem priest...
...same day. The next best runner in the race seemed to be Vic Williams of Southern California but Eastman had beaten him two weeks before at the same distance. They came out of the chute with Eastman running well back in the pack, his hands dangling, his stride so smooth that it might have been designed to keep his glasses from falling off. Eastman was ahead coming into the last turn when Williams, who had started badly, began to catch up, running with his legs wide apart, his face twisted into an expression of effort and fatigue. Eastman...