Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Bazaar came into the stretch a length ahead of the field in the Saranac Handicap. With a ghostlike rush, Jockey Wayne Wright brought Kievex up on the outside of the track, beat Bazaar to the wire by a head. Three days later, Colonel Bradley was consoled when Boxthorn won the Saratoga Special...
Unlike Man o' War, whose procedure in a race was to start out fast and stay in front to the finish, Cavalcade starts slowly, often finds himself well behind when he comes into the stretch. The phenomenal sprint in the last quarter-mile with which he wins his races he developed in early-morning practice workouts. His jockey's instructions were to "breeze" him for three-quarters of a mile, where another horse from the Sloane stable would be broken in ahead for Cavalcade to pass. If the fresh horse showed signs of outrunning Cavalcade in the workout...
...tube dress, came to their rescue by raising the waistline, dropping the skirt. "Foundation garments" became a practical necessity. The corset-makers frankly admitted for the first time that women had not one bust but two breasts. Even then corsets were relatively clumsy affairs with elastic threads woven to stretch only in one direction. The elastic lost its snap if a corset lay on a store shelf for any length of time. Perspiration and a few washings had the same effect...
Alabama. The United Textile Workers of America called a Statewide strike in Alabama demanding a 30-hour week, $12 minimum wage, abolition of the "stretch-out,"* reinstatement of men fired for union activity, union recognition. Out marched the hands in 24 mills in northern Alabama. Of the State's 35,000 textile workers the union estimated 22,000 were on strike, while employers set the figure at 13,000. Well aware that cotton goods have been piling up in warehouses, employers took the strike philosophically, announced the mills would stay shut indefinitely, declared the union was "striking against...
...moment, it looked as if his stubborn faith in his entry might be justified. Cavalcade was loping along in third place when Discovery popped out in front of the field going into the stretch. The flash of the Vanderbilt silks seemed the signal for which the Kentucky Derby winner had been waiting. Cavalcade began his famed finishing spurt, took a few long strides. won as he pleased. Four lengths behind, hard pressed by Hadagal, Discovery took second place...