Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along slowly, often makes his pupils lay off training in March if he thinks they are getting in top form too soon. He permits his jumpers to jump only once a week, spend the rest of their time doing gymnastics to develop muscles and low hurdles to perfect their stride. But modest Dean Cromwell insists his success is due to the Grade A material he gets from Southern California high schools, where 6-ft. high jumps and 9.8 hundreds are the rule rather than the exception...
Eucharistic Congresses, the mightiest demonstrations of public faith the Christian world affords, demonstrate also the Catholic Church's talent for organized magnificence. Committees in charge take in their stride arrangements for such ceremonies as Budapest's Mass last week for 100,000 children, with presents of candy afterward for every one. Yet the Budapest Congress was not the largest of recent years. Nazi truculence, in the form of special visa restrictions, kept Germans at home, held the number of foreign pilgrims to about 25,000, of whom 1,000 were U. S. Catholics...
Apparently let down after their three league game weekend, the Mitchellmen made eight errors in the field against the Jumbos Monday to lose 13-4. Today the Crimson should snap back into their, stride, that has brought the circuit lead and the best Varsity of several years...
...victory tomorrow, but again the fight will be between the Crimson and Cornell boats. Two weeks ago both lacked smoothness and a good keel, but after stroke Bill Rowe swept to victory over the Tigers, most observers are betting on the Harvard seconds to take another in their stride...
Dartmouth swept the 220 low hurdles. Harvard's Mason Fernald had a bad day; his old rivals Donovan and Watson of Dartmouth took him in the highs, and in the lows he lost his stride and fell back out of the scoring. Alex Northrop ran another good mile, winning the distance by 40 yards over Whitman of Dartmouth. His time...