Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wimbledon and Davis Cup tennis, Rose Bowl football; they are just ordinary sports events. For today is the start of the world's biggest sports spectacle the opening of the major league baseball season, with sixteen teams ready to start a 154-game grind down to the home stretch and the World Series...
...weeks that they will fight if their border is crossed by the Germans. These brave words from brave men Der Führer duly took into account, but not in the way expected. Since he had barred London and Paris from aiding Czechoslovakia by making the Rome-Berlin Axis stretch uninterruptedly from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, the problem last week was whether Moscow from the east will strike across Poland or Rumania to aid Prague. Orator Hitler has compared himself to a somnambulist and last week he advanced like a woman in her sleep unerringly to the wallet...
...plant can turn out 70,000 gross tons of steel a month, but it employs a maximum of 2,000 men. And under last week's slim demand for steel, the mill operated smoothly with scarcely a man in sight for a quarter-mile at a stretch...
...equal to 10². Ten squared is simply 100. Reader Sweet's googolplex is not a googolplex but merely a googol squared. By using a series of ascending powers, a googolplex could be written in comparatively small space; written straight out, it would, as TIME said, stretch further than the visible universe...
...Bruins and New York Rangers well out in front-the Detroit Red Wings, in the cellar, were close on the heels of the Chicago Black Hawks. Thus seven of the eight teams still had a good chance to win, place or show, and the Rangers, famed for their spirited stretch finishes, were only four points behind the Bruins and battling for first place...