Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour's rest, he started near the front in the half-mile and took the lead after 400 yards. It was Hallowell who was tired, after losing a terrific mile to Mangan of Cornell. Turner of Michigan and Hudder Dawson, the Princeton captain, challenged Eastman in the stretch but neither could whittle down his lead. Winner by ten yards, Eastman's time was 1:51.9, or .3 sec. slower than the world's record and one second slower than his own best time...
...therefore be affrighted? Why stand frozen with fear and trembling like the slaves of old? Why not remember the inheritance which is ours and stretch forth strong arms and stout hearts and be worthy of our patrimony? We have an illustrious example of such a spirit ? the spirit of one who, through the last long grueling four years, has stood at the helm as the captain of our ship of state and has steered the vessel safely through fog and hurricane, and passed the terrors of the lee shore. . . . This homespun American, HERBERT HOOVER...
...considers wet fly fishing "as a finished art . . . much harder to master than dry fly fishing. ' Quoting directly from his field notes, Author Bergman tells about nights spent fishing Brandy Brook in the Adirondacks, days in which he did no fishing at all but sat watching a small stretch of stream to find out how its trout acted. Three years later he caught a trout in this part of the brook for the first time. Profoundly observant. Author Bergman caught trout on a wet fly by allowing it to sink, judging the depth by counting to a certain number...
...plucky Brown outfit, famous for its pitchers, but considerably weakened by recent injuries, faces an uncertain Harvard varsity here at 4 o'clock today, in the continuation of a 64 years baseball rivalry. Harvard is running into a hard stretch of its schedule, and is suffering from a disorganization brought about by the Holy Cross batsmen in an exciting scoring surge in the ninth inning of Saturday's fatal clash in Worcester...
...evening sun has just rolled down a shoulder of the mountain leaving a great blue heron hanging alone in the sky. He surveys with evident satisfaction the long line of foothills that stretch away like ramparts across the horizon. A carpet of soft green swings down the valley and lies along the plains beyond. In the pasture across the road a solitary hedgehog is pottering about some forgotten business before he sets out on the long waddle home. And in the air there is that strange silence that brings only happy sounds; the voice of the brook...