Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gallantly coming down the home stretch 20 lengths behind the Lowell House crew, Leverett's eight yesterday took first honors for pluck as Lowell, Kirkland, Eliot and Adams earned places in the finals which will be rowed off tomorrow...
After the race was over. Kurtsinger said: "There was nothing to it." This was an exaggeration but after the first turn, there was never a moment when it looked as though War Admiral might lose. Coming into the stretch, Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon challenged him for the lead. Jockey Kurtsinger touched War Admiral once with his whip and drew away. At the end of the race. War Admiral was going easily, almost two lengths ahead. Pompoon was second, eight lengths ahead of Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward who nosed out the rest of the field...
Yukon lies to the west of Canada's Northwest Territories (Mackenzie, Keewatin and Franklin). These four stretch across the sparsely populated top of the continent. Yukon, jammed between Alaska-and Mackenzie, is washed on the north by the Arctic Ocean. It is a tilted rugged land sloping unevenly eastward from the Rockies and northward from British Columbia's upper border which is the 60th Parallel and where Mount Logan. Canada's highest, looms to 19,850 ft. To get into the Yukon sportsmen and other travelers take a Canadian Pacific steamship from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska, change...
...grimmest fact was that in event of a real war, no imagination would be needed, and eight days would be a long stretch in Hell. When hostilities suspended, the fleet sailed into Pearl Harbor and Honoluluans turned to happier thoughts as 8,000 officers & men came ashore on leave...
...remembered that Madison, while favoring the enumeration of powers, protested against confining a government to the exercise of express powers, saying that "there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication." But while the framers wrote a constitution with implied as well as enumerated powers, judicial interpretation has tended to stretch, however slowly, the powers of the central government. Nevertheless, there are many who favor a "clarifying amendment" rather than extending to the limit the burden of borderline interpretation to which the Court is heir...