Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much more than speedways for vacationing Nazis, the Autobahnen have potent military significance. Logistics experts calculate that soldiers with all their impedimenta can be trucked over any stretch of the system, using only one strip, at the rate of 72,000 an hour. Thus German officers, particularly those of the younger, mechanized generation, are convinced that the Autobahnen will supplant railroads as the prime mode of wartime transport...
...yard dash at the Millrose Games; Mason Fernald, veteran hurdler; Steve Madey, dark-horse pole-vaulter and erstwhile softball pitching wizard, who should top 13 feet; Charley Oldfather, lanky Sophomore who will run the 1000; Gene Clark, who last year covered the mile stretch in 4.25; Pen Tuttle, whose entrance in the two mile run is doubtful after an illness earlier this week; and Bob Partlow, Sophomore broad and high jump flash, who does around 22 feet, 6 inches in the former event, and should top 6 feet, 2 inches in the latter tonight...
...towering Andes and the Pacific, the elongated Republic of Chile runs like a rind along the western coast of South America from the tropics to Cape Horn. Averaging only about 125 miles in width, the country is so long (2,661 miles) that, if draped across Europe, it would stretch from Moscow to Madrid. To compensate for its unwieldy shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered...
...Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent most of her time on stairways talking to the servants. When an inter-room telephone system was installed, the novel went swimmingly. Working seven hours at a stretch, she typed about 1,000 words...
...build up a picture of your own with your mental eye. Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor," the Vagabond gets one definite mental picture, while you may get an entirely different impression. Vag's mental picture of tents is always biased by a very rainy camping trip last summer...