Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kahlege, because we're so busy just a-scrapin' the cowdung off our heels an' plowin' the south forty an' one thing an' another that we just naturally don't have time. We don't hardly even have time to stretch our American brains, like he asked us to do. But we do know that the King of England shouldn't be talked of as if he was just a ordinary human being. We know what's right and proper, and we don't want our TIME mag-axine...
Corn is not the only thing that grows fast and big on the sunbaked, rain-drenched prairies of Illinois. A single tree was all that broke the flat monotony of a stretch of prairie between Urbana and West Urbana (now Champaign) in 1867 when citizens planted a State university there. In 67 years their seed has blossomed into the nation's seventh largest university. The 1,500-acre waste of prairie is green and landscaped, thick with great buildings. The new president whom trustees picked last week will administer a faculty & student body numbering 15,000 and a plant...
...canvas altogether. When he dropped brushes, they would float to the surface. Now he has mastered the knack of water perspective, uses a palette knife instead of a brush. To avoid chills, even in the warm Bahaman waters where he paints, he stays down only 20 minutes at a stretch, makes four or five trips a day. Sometimes Dr. Roy Waldo Miner, the Museum's Curator of Living Invertebrates, joins him, once took an under water cinema of him at work (see cut). There was no special realism about the Olsen submarinescapes last week to indicate they were actually...
...body as the Labor Board or the Federal Trade Commission, would be reviewable by the courts, and might bring to a head all the opposition against the pretensions of the National Recovery Act. This Act is one which can not be enforced by the courts without a tremendous stretch, made under strong administrative pressure, and the strength of administrative pressure is a fact that can only be politically determined. If it can really be enforced at all, it can be enforced by an executive power under a blanket mandate of the people; and the attempt to enforce it must...
With green bag drooping wearily over one shoulder, the Vagabond picked his way along that slushy stretch of sidewalk which borders the Fogg Museum. It was five o'clock, foggy, and the end of a hard and bitter day. The bells in Memorial Hall had just ceased tolling, and those of St. Paul's had brazenly clattered their answer. A short distance ahead the Vagabond caught sight of an old woman. She was dressed in rags, she tottered onwards unmindful through the myriad puddles, and now and then she addressed a plaintive supplication to passers by. For this the Vagabond...