Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some types of the Aurora interfere badly with radio. For ten days at a stretch the two expeditions in Greenland could not raise each other...
...going much too fast. In the third quarter Horan moved out front. It proved to be the slowest part of the race, but fast enough to prevent Horan from finishing. Then Bonthron, a bit ahead of Lovelock, took the lead. The event was now between them. In the back stretch of the last lap, Lovelock was running smoothly, holding himself in. Then Bonthron let loose. Lovelock, with less effort, held his own. For five steps on the final turn they ran shoulder to shoulder. And then Lovelock swept out front with a terrific sprint. Bonthron bowed his close-cropped head...
...Jeby: a 15-round fight with Young Terry of Trenton, N. J., in which Jeby was defending his world's middleweight championship; in Newark. ¶Inlander, owned by socialite Mrs. Dodge Sloane of Manhattan: the Arlington Classic, in which he muddily spattered up from fourth place in the stretch, to finish first and pay $21.52, in Chicago. ¶Ralph Flannagan, 15, of Miami: the National A. A. U. outdoor mile swimming race held in the north lagoon of the Century of Progress, Chicago, in 21:12½, thus breaking the U. S. record (21:27) held by Cinematic Buster...
...great was the President's haste to put the code into operation that he did not wait for all its rough points to be smoothed out. Still to be settled, for instance, was the tough question of "stretch outs," the practice of making one mill worker tend a larger number of looms as an offset to higher pay. But President Roosevelt could & would not tarry on details because: 1) cotton mills have lately been boosting production to finish as much goods as possible at cheap rates before their costs go up; 2) on July 17 it will...
...great many private bankers this forced choice caused little or no worry. Kuhn, Loeb & Co.-according to the testimony of Partner Otto Kahn at a hearing a year and a half ago-are primarily wholesalers of securities. It requires no great stretch of the imagination to picture Kuhn. Loeb's senior partner, Felix Warburg, presiding at a meeting at which the firm decides without any heartburnings to give up its banking business. A like amount of imagination would serve for Goldman. Sachs. And it requires no imagination whatever to picture Dillon. Read and Lehman Brothers renouncing the banking business...