Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schuylkill River has no straight- away more than a mile in length, and the Henley has a slight turn in it shortly after its beginning. Harvard, on the inside lane, started ahead, but they soon dropped back alongside the other two boats, so that when they straightened out for the finish line the Crimson shell was well behind...
Then Spike Chaco went to work; the stroke went up, up, until it was 40. Harvard was doing the unbelievable as it passed Penn, came up steadily on Navy. Behind by over a length at one point, the Crimson closed up the gap--except for that last quarter length...
...There are three main divisions of the law: common or garden law, which seems to be made rather by the sun and shade than by the reasoning of man; equity, which the learned John Selden said depended upon the length of the Lord Chancellor's foot; and international law, which is a device made of sand, painted to look like iron...
...active workers in U. S. churches, warm weather annually brings conventions and conferences at which the ways of doing God's work on earth are discussed at length. Livelier than usual were these curtain-raisers of fast week...
...convention ought to go on record favoring the anti-lynching bill." While delegates shouted "no, no, no," Georgia's famed Dry William David ("Willie") Upshaw rose to crackle: "I am going to refute this young man. He is not an old-time Baptist." Oldtime Baptist Upshaw refuted at length...