Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...closing the choir and congregation sang from the hymnal, "Awake my Soul, Stretch every Nerve...
...time fixed for the race was 6.30 on Thursday, June 30th. The course for the two-mile races at New London is the last half of the four-mile course-that is to say, the stretch between the Navy Yard and the finish flag opposite Winthrop's Point. The weather was beautiful and the water was comparatively smooth. The Columbia men were rather smaller than the Harvard Freshmen, and it was generally supposed that the latter would win easily...
...gathered together. No excuse need be offered by the city government in thus applying in so gentlemanly a spirit first to the undergraduates. We are sorry to say that when even meat signs and the better part of lamp posts are frequently found adorning students rooms, it is no stretch of the imagination to suppose for a moment that some patriotic student has claimed his country's flag as the fair guerdon of a night raid. But we are very loth to think for a moment that such is the case. Indeed, evidences seem to point in much the opposite...
...early days of the Colony was considerable, and will help account, together with his private character, for the honorable way in which the early records of Charlestown show that he was received here. Let us go back to 1605 and to Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Stratford. We may stretch a point in trying to associate together the name of William Shakespeare, the first name in English literature, with that of John Harvard, the most august one in the history of American education. We know that at this very time William Shakespeare had finished his career as an actor...
...race of the afternoon. Both scratch men were inside the previous inter-collegiate record, 7 m. 4 4-5 sec., made by Eldredge, of Columbia, in 1877. Norton and Zinkeisen were caught and passed by the other two at the half mile. From that time until on the back stretch of the last quarter Bemis led, closely followed by Wright, who then passed him and won by ten feet. Wright's time was 7 m. 1 sec., just 3 4-5 seconds better than the record. Bemis' time was 7 m. 2 sec., which also beat the time of Eldredge...