Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snappy mid-week workout the Varsity oarsmen nipped the Freshman crew by half a length rowing upstream yesterday over the mile and three-quarters stretch...
...Elephant boat lived up to its name as far as power went, as it held a safe lead over the entire stretch. Winthrop, staging a mighty spurt near the end, drew up on the Bunny shell but caught a crab up on the Bunny shell but caught a crab 25 yards from the finish line enabling the Leverett eight to cinch second place and a spot in the final. Dudley, despite a consignment of ringers, finished nearly 25 lengths in the rear...
...Lawrin. Determined to win his first Kentucky Derby, 23-year-old Jockey Arcaro rode the race he planned. Drawing the No. 1 post position, he kept Lawrin close to the rail, stuck in the ruck until he found his opening. Coming into the stretch, he pulled out in front-three, four, five lengths- shot across the finish line a full length ahead of William du Pont's fast closing Dauber. Can't Wait was third. Favorites Fighting Fox and Bull Lea finished out of the money...
...banks, of labor-saving machinery. Some were clear, some blurred, a few merely smears and jagged lines. When Critic Boyd announced solemnly that the greatest show on earth properly began with man, television illustrated the observation with a mysterious shapeless blob of shadow that could not by any stretch of the imagination be called a representation of a human being. Observers nevertheless agreed that the review as a whole gave a strong impression of what the book was all about, an even stronger impression that it would be a long time before television book reviewing became a common practice...
...finish of the 440 yard run was gratifying to Crimson fans. Jim Light-body, Tudor Richards, and Frannie King swept around the turn in a pre-arranged formation which left the home stretch clear for them to finish in that order. Light-body's time of 50.6 seconds was adequate in view of the fact that he was entered in the low hurdles later in the afternoon...