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...Matching stride for stride with tens of thousands of tanned, healthy, spade-carrying German Labor Front workers who tramped across Nürnberg's green field, tens of thousands of tanned and healthy young Russian parachute jumpers, pilots and sharpshooters, children clutching airplane models and girls in nurses' uniforms trooped across Red Square behind dipped crimson banners. The only direct reference to Germany among the hundreds of banners attacking Fascism and aggressor nations were those proclaiming "Bolshevist greetings to the revolutionary proletariat in Germany...
Valley of the Giants (Warner Bros.), like Drums (see below), takes color completely in its stride. And its Paul Bunyanesque stride is suitable to Peter B. Kyne's famed tale of lumberjacking and land grabbing in California's redwood forests. Charles Bickford, as head of a crooked gang of Eastern lumber barons, is determined to whittle the world's oldest stand of timber down to shingle slabs. Wayne Morris, an idealistic young landowner, is committed to preserving his mortgaged title to acreage that the gang needs to complete its shocking plan. The changing sympathies of Claire Trevor...
...lifted the tip of the umbrella form the sidewalk, mumbled a word and fell in with the other's rapid stride...
With just eight days to get accustomed to his new charge, who was notorious for his bad temper and fondness for breaking from racing stride into a gallop. Driver Henry Thomas, one of the sturdiest and smartest in the game, thought he had McLin ready on Hambletonian Day. Seasoned horsemen, however, knowing that McLin had never finished in the money as a two-year-old and had not won a race this season, doubted whether even foxy, strong-fingered Henry Thomas could handle him. At the end of the first one-mile heat, when McLin, trotting in faultless gait, came...
taught in Holland and Sweden. In its week of deliberations and celebrations, the Kongreso made one little, one giant stride into new territories: They persuaded London's County Council to provide night-school courses in Esperanto, France's Government to urge all State schools to teach Esperanto...