Word: strides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tibbetts '26 is perhaps the greatest of Crimson two-milers and distance men. A lean, wiry, middle-height individual, with a smooth untiring stride, he has run some of the finest races in Crimson track history. In the Triangular meet of 1925 he was destined to score the fourth new record. He came up against the widely heralded entry from Hanover, Osgood, who had smashed the Dartmouth record a week before, and against Craig of Cornell. The race turned out to be one of Tibbetts against time, in which the former won by 11 2-5 seconds...
...called the 'tried stage.' The candidate passes through a period of physical and mental exhaustion, and again he is liable to become discouraged though not nearly so prone to give up struggle. A week or more of this experience and the candidate settles down into his late competition stride. His time and news sources are well organized, his command of journalistic style is rapidly developing and he finds himself turning off and amazing amount of work with an case which a month earlier he would have believed impossible. And it is often in this last stage that the obscure, inexperienced...
...last war brought about a number of changes, for in that period India took a long stride towards becoming an industrial nation, moving from a position as the twentieth industrial country in the world to the eighth largest, and this industrial change brought with it, as well as the changes in the social status, a new desire on the part of the people of India for political freedom so that they might control their own destinies...
...feet could be seen as they passed the window. He pointed to one seedy pair of Legs, sauntering by on broken shoes. "There, but for the grace of God, stand I," he murmured. Suddenly he swung around and began to talk, crossing and recrossing the office at a single stride...
...Detroit, last week, Baritone John Charles Thomas arrived late for a rehearsal with the Detroit Symphony. The orchestra, busy under Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, would not stop immediately to go over the part of the program it was to share with Baritone Thomas, saw instead its star soloist stride angrily from the hall. This, explained Manager Jefferson B. Webb, was the reason for the last-minute substitution of Tenor Richard Crooks...