Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever this might mean to U. S. citizens, it was recognized by British reader: as a dignified intimation to the President that he can ignore U. S. isolationists and stretch firm hands across the Atlantic to support Britain should she be again challenged by Mussolini or threatened by Hitler or the agents of Stalin. The Manchester Guardian advised the President that he will be compelled to face the issue of amending the Constitution and reducing the Supreme Court's powers. "lf," cried the Guardian, "the first American President with the overwhelming support both of the people and of Congress...
TIME credited the World-Telegram's world-girdling Reporter Ekins with no victory, no record. Third contestant in the race-that-was-not-a-race, New York Journal's Dorothy Kilgallen, took a special plane on the home stretch from Alameda to Newark, completed her circumnavigation in 24 days 12 hr. 51 min. Sticking strictly to commercial schedules, except for one taxi ride from Bologna to Brindisi, Timesman Kieran made the trip in 24 days...
Rose Bowl (Paramount) provided the University of Southern California football squad with a nice stretch of work this summer at standard Hollywood pay for costume extras. Cinemaddicts who are also football fans will recognize Tod Goodwin, famed star of the New York Giants (professional) at end. The burly, dark-haired young man who stops a locker-room tiff between Paddy O'Riley (Tom Brown) and Dutch Schultz (Benny Baker) is Nick Lukats, 1933 Notre Dame halfback, now a Paramount contract player. Director Charles Barton needed this kind of cast. Rose Bowl's games are not composed of matched...
...Crimson has come behind of tie the score on Dick Lewis' third period gole. Improved all round play, and especially by the inside forwards, was giving the home team a slight advantage coming down the stretch until Bud Morgan's winning Tiger tally came on a shot that bounded off the cross bar into the cage...
...Philadelphia, trying to stretch the second-best current winning streak in the U. S. to 13 games in a row, Princeton got past Pennsylvania's 10-yd. line five times, past its goal-line never. Penn's touchdown, on Quarterback Lew Elverson's 57-yd. run before the game was ten minutes old, made the score the same as that of Princeton's last defeat-by Yale...