Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the thorough German curiosity of Hitler about Littoria is causing Italians gladly to rehearse in detail the history of 2,500 years and more. Littoria is a stretch of land 15 mi. wide by 50 long lying between the Lepine Mountains, which drains down onto its bogs and the Tyrrhenian Sea. What is now Littoria was, before the days of Ancient Rome, an extremely fertile country whose natives, the Volsci, were adept at maintaining the ditches and drains they had built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians...
Boston's famed gift to athletics, the 26-mile, 385-yard Patriots' Day Marathon, which each year adds laureled heroes to the ranks of running's greats, yesterday culled but one doughty Crimsonite for the gruelling stretch...
...eighth inning Grondahi tumbled Polzer's grounder, and the latter scored the final run when Howe tripled to deep right centre field. In trying to stretch his hit to a four-bagger. Howe was out on the throw home...
...cars on the market in a little less than a year. Their present headquarters is in the rear of Fred Marriot's garage midway between Newton Corner and Watertown. Marriot achieved lasting fame a generation ago when, as Stanley's chief test driver, he took off from a sandy stretch of beach in a steamer at 190 miles an hour and lived to tell the tale...
...most exciting races of the afternoon was a half mile duel between Al Hanlon '39 and Rollo Campbell '41. Though Joe Donnelly '40 won the race with a fifty yard handicap to his benefit Hanlon and Campbell were the focal point when they ran abreast down the back stretch, Hanlon in the last few yards edging out Campbell. Hanlon's time was 1 minute, 57.3 seconds...