Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the new labor law limiting the working hours of waitresses to nine hours at a stretch goes into effect tomorrow, it will have no application to the waitress in the House and Freshman dining halls and in the Union, according to a ruling by the State Labor Relations Board...
Smith's Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow (acting President) : "Perhaps some of you are wishing at this moment that you might offer personal service over there. ... It is not your part. Your duty is to study hard, to try to understand ... to stretch your minds ... so that you may carry away from this place some judgment and perhaps a little wisdom for the world after...
Barry Corvall (sulky, hulky Joel McCrea) is a trig young U. S. diplomat in Morocco when civil war strands dark, sultry-eyed, plump-lipped Brenda Ballard (Newcomer Brenda Marshall) in his consulate. When Barry returns to Washington for a stretch at the foreign service school, he takes femme fatale Brenda with him. Though she is more suspicious as a woman with no past at all than many a woman with one, Career Diplomat Barry very undiplomatically marries her. But Brenda is pledged to an exclusive spy ring, continues to be tapped by them even when she turns a cold...
...Stuff. Until 1917, each side attacked or defended linear fronts. In attack their tendency was to stretch and strain. On defense they tended to crack. Sent to the rear, Colonel Lossberg proceeded to construct a new kind of major fortification, based on zonal defense. He built what the Allies called the Hindenburg Line. It was not Hindenburg's and it was not a line. The Germans called it the Siegfried Stellung (Siegfried Position...
Scene. Having the initiative was their fundamental advantage and General Gam elin moved cautiously to retain it. The sector he chose for his first move against Germany's "impregnable" Westwall (or Limes Line*) was the 100-mi, stretch from Lauterbourg on the Rhine, northwest to the Moselle River (see map). Here the German border and the Westwall guarding it depart from the Rhine, to run across hilly vineyard and forest country. To break through the Wall here does not involve the added difficulty of crossing the Rhine. And neutral Luxembourg guards the French left flank. Last week the lower...