Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tough contingent from Syracuse, while the Cornell boat doesn't present too much opposition. With the exception of a slump last Saturday, the Jayvees have consistently bettered their times, and recently have been pressing the Varsity in trials. There is every reason to believe that the second eight will stretch out a length lead at least over the Orange Jayvees, with the Big Red a close third...
Flourishing an extravagantly powerful Chace-like finish, the Crimson varsity flashed across the finish line nearly two lengths ahead of the Midshipmen in the final race of the afternoon. The last stretch of the mile and three-quarters course provided an almost mirror-like surface for the final struggle in a prow-and-prow duel between the oarsmen from the Severn and from Cambridge which Harvard...
...roar thundered through the lush valley. Blockade was in the lead, Coq Bruyere far behind. Fencing perfectly and lightning fast on the flat, Blockade clung to his lead. Not until the 18th jump did Coq Bruyere challenge. They took the last fence neck & neck. Then, in as exciting a stretch finish as is seen in many a six-furlong sprint on the flat, Blockade, with Farm Boy John Colwill up, just nosed out his rival to win his second Maryland Hunt...
...between Japan's and China's armies has been the collision of a resistible force with a movable object. The battlefronts have been extremely elastic. Last week a Chinese military spokesman coined a new phrase for China's war plan: "rubber-band tactics"-let the Japanese stretch their various lines of advance until they are either snapped back or bound around. Last week the bands were being stretched and relaxed at the following points...
Although Penn Tuttle will not be running today, Gene Clark, Ros Brayton, and Chick Oldfather will handle the mile, and Dave Simboli the two-mile. Because spring is late this year and the meet early, the milers will run a three-quarter mile stretch, and the two-milers a one and a half mile route...