Word: striding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealer, was up on Alligator for Mrs. Stevenson. He had been letting his rivals eliminate and trample each other. Alligator, slow but steady, surefooted, was second coming into the last turn. Wav.erly Star was two lengths in front. Waverly Star rose for a jump, fell coming down. In a stride Alligator was at the jump, rose, fell the same way. For a second both horses were squirming, both jockeys...
Michigan comes here at the top of its stride, flushed with victory, at full strength and confident of administering a clean-cut setback to the Crimson. The advantage of two weeks rest has enabled many players, who were injured in the Conference games, to fully recuperate for this game for which Michigan has been pointing all season...
What saps a nation's strength and pride? What cramps its manly form and stride, And turns its youth, unsanctified, To Coiltrils and carousers? What spreads corruption's baleful breed And makes the stoutest lad weak-kneed? Be warned--it is, it is indeed The cursed cult of trousers...
...Year's Day for show business is Aug. 1. Looking over the 1930-31 prospects last week as the new year was catching its stride, show folk detected a bullish note. Some 250 productions were scheduled to open on Broadway, some 70 productions were routed to play the provinces -an increase of 30 over last year. The Theatre Guild announced that it would present its repertory in ten cities* -three more than the 1929 tour. And although Walter Hampden made known that he would not go on the road as in previous years because of poor business conditions, Funnyman...
...higher than the start. Official objection might be simply that such a track is not absolutely standard, but students of physics found fine food for debate in this proposition: the gravity factor being negligible, it may be that one can run faster up a slight incline since, at each stride, one's feet would strike upsloping ground more quickly than level...