Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Namely, Jencks - well, in short, at the home-stretch came last...
...must carry in his shoes, in spite of his ungainly gait, and in spite of the lead and better position Augustus had at the start, - in spite of all these, - will be more than even with him, and I should not wonder if Augustus were "nowhere" on the home-stretch...
...found their representatives chosen for them without regard to their consent. By a curious contradiction in terms, however, the officers elected were called Class-Day officers, and assumed to represent the class. As long as Class Day is to be an occasion commemorative of class traditions and associations, no stretch of the imagination can make it other than a "snatch and have" proceeding for any section of a class - even "a limited body of men of fashion" to arrogate to itself the exclusive privilege of choosing certain class officers. If any such organization exists, as a "limited body...
...Halls, rich with memories of the past. It must be confessed that they are not calculated to remind one of home. The wood-work is rough and unpainted; the windows are dirty and dim; the walls are dingy and smoked. Yet the Harvard student counts it a privilege to stretch his limbs beneath their mossy roofs, and the older the building is the more valuable becomes his habitation. He cares not for the rickety stairs or unpainted walls; he gazes upon the traces of illustrious predecessors and is happy...
...seems strange that coxswains do not learn to take more advantage of tide and wind. During flood-tide there must be a current of one mile an hour at the least, and by avoiding half of that by keeping near the wall, during the ten minutes on the home stretch, a gain (if these premises are right) of 264 feet would be made. When the tide is running out at the rate of four or five miles an hour in mid stream, still greater loss or gain might be made by the steering...