Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennis is one of the most graceful of games in its movements, and in its rhythm. It teaches the player to stand properly, because it encourages poise and balance. People who have played much tennis walk in a smooth and cat-like manner. If there is any excessive muscular development, it is because the strokes have been done incorrectly, and strain has been imposed unnecessarily upon muscles not prepared...
...University of Rochester last week announced that its gait analyst. Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz, will build a race track on a farm which he has just bought overlooking the Genesee River. There Dr. Schwartz will walk, trot, single-step, lope and gallop horses on whose backs will be strapped an electric recording device which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph. This will show by means of wires attached to the hoofs, details of locomotion which the fastest cinema cameras have failed to catch. Eventually Dr. Schwartz "hopes to determine precisely what makes a good race horse...
...unlike the larger body, are self-perpetuating; they may elect whom they choose, and members serve until they resign or die. At first this seems too exclusive, but it must be remembered that, with a group of only seven, the board must be friendly and be in the same walk of life to accomplish what they must...
First baseman Lupe Lupien led the Varsity attack with three singles and a walk, while Phil Staples, filling in at catcher for the ailing Al Colwell, clouted a homer in his first appearance at bat this season and accounted for another tally in the fifth inning after reaching first for being hit by a pitched ball...
Wearing his honors modestly, he believes in the simple virtues of hard work and honesty, preaches intellectual curiosity and never-ending self-education. To troubled friends he advises, "Read a book, make a friend, take a walk." To himself when impatient with strange people and their causes he recalls the advice his good fishing friend President Grover Cleveland used to give him when he hooked into a wild one: "Go easy on him, Finley, go easy...