Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ruck coming into the stretch. But the wiseacres had not counted on Stagehand's fine sense of drama. In time's nick, like the hero of a Wild West thriller, Stagehand lengthened out, swept wide around the pack, past Sun Egret, past Dauber, won by half a length...
...said that this place has been purchased by some individual. If it has been purchased, it was according to My Instruction. It was offered to My Followers and they were disinterested in it. They would not, nor did not, even so much as lease the building for a further length of time. . . . We have aplenty, aplenty of buildings. . . . We have accommodation for many thousands of individuals out of this city, and many buildings in this city. At least the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof...
...recent years attempts have been made to use infrared radiation (invisible vibration longer in wave length than visible light) to help fog-wrapped ships at sea. Some time ago Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams experimented with infrared cameras on two U. S. ships. The alert head of Pennsylvania's State police, Commissioner Percy W. Foote, decided that infrared radiation could be utilized on land as well as on sea, asked Flavel M. Williams to help him put it to work catching traffic law violators...
...Adventures of Marco Polo (Samuel Goldwyn). This grotesquely cast Marco Polo skips like a cockleshell over the surface of Marco's famed Munchausenish travel tale, comes at length to a cockleshell's finale. With about as much relish for his task as a small boy's for his homework, lank, ingenuous Actor Gary Cooper dons Marco's 13th-Century raiment, crosses desert, sea & mountain only to find, in a remarkable conception of old Peking, George Barbier dressed up as Kublai Khan. Historically, Kublai Khan was China's strong man, who conquered all of China & ruled...
...South-is the gross weight of trucks fixed so low; nowhere but in South Carolina is there such a narrow (90 in.) width limit. Most U. S. trucks are 96 in. wide, though Rhode Island and Connecticut permit 102-in. widths. South Carolina allows a maximum length of 35 ft. Length in other States varies from 27 ft. in Tennessee to 60 ft. in Nevada...