Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They saw Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's chestnut gelding Blot win the main event, the Manhasset Steeplechase, by a half-length. They saw Winston Guest astride Lady Newberry win a thunderous race for polo ponies after his cousin Mike Phipps fell from a slipping saddle in the stretch. But what they enjoyed most, and what many of them had come specially to see, was the four-furlong race for lady riders, an innovation in United Hunts meets...
...offering an attractive medium to advertisers of men's accessories: "Esquire aims to become the common denominator of masculine interests-to be all things to all men. ... It aims to be among other things, a fashion guide for men. But it never intends to become, by any possible stretch of the imagination, a primer for fops...
...came into the stretch last week at Rockingham Park Race Track (near Salem, N. H.) the urchin who was riding Quick Step scarcely heard the crowd at the rail yelling, "Come on, Westrope." Jockey Westrope paid more attention to the pounding of hoofs coming up closer and closer behind him, made by Bun D, with Jockey Porter up. He drew his whip, leaned forward in his stirrup, almost lifted Quick Step across the finish line-still ahead by barely a nose. It was the second race that Jockey Westrope had won that afternoon. It brought his record for the year...
...China tea, his cat Pretzel, and the part of the Dutch skipper in the House play, which he played quite without fault (Cf. Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday," Mermaid edition). Cats are great favorites with him; he has been known to spend five or ten minutes at a stretch gazing into the eyes of his tabby while it sits in his lap. Just love, apparently. Crayon-drawings of past cats in his life stood about the Head Tutor's rooms in Eliot House for the two years of his incumbency...
Thus the current state of Education, involving 30,000,000 pupils and 1,000,000 teachers. For two years pedagogs have bemoaned their slow but steady deflation. Last week as the schools opened many of them felt more bitter than ever. U. S. Industry seemed headed briskly into the stretch. U. S. Education was still at the turn, far in the rear. Who would help it catch...