Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haughton, one of America's greatest punters as an undergraduate ushered in the Crimson's gridiron golden age when he became head coach in 1908. His teams, in the stretch from 1908 to 1916, won 71 of their 83 contests, while losing only seven and tying five. An undefeated string of 33 games and five unbeaten seasons are the highlights in his record...
...poor at bargain prices, the lists proved that among the "poor" new owners were relatives of Nahas Pasha's wife-her sister, her twelve-year-old niece, ten-year-old nephew, her brother & his wife. At Zitoon, near the Cairo airport, there were 10,000 applicants for another stretch of land. So a lottery was held by the government. The lucky winners included three of Nahas Pasha's cousins, the telephone operator at his residence, four of his secretaries, six of his guards, the Minister of the Interior's brother, and the Minister of Public Works...
Ward had also learned how to stretch his financial shoestring. He got experts, who became interested in Year, to do part-time work for little pay, wangled many free pictures, and, for 1951, got Historian Arnold J. Toynbee to write a foreword, simply by writing and asking...
...Hill Prince an overwhelming odds-on (7-20) favorite. Flawlessly ridden by Eddie Arcaro, handsome Hill Prince ran like a champion. Leggy, light-bodied Counterpoint (2-1), with his regular jockey Dave Gorman up, stayed off the pace for the first mile, moved to Hill Prince coming into the stretch and won by a length and a quarter going away...
Bill Buckley came to Yale in 1946 with deep-rooted beliefs in Christianity and individualism, beliefs which were probably shared by most of his classmates that year. But while many of Yale '50's values were modified during its four years at college, Buckley's remained fixed. During his stretch at Yale (he was chairman of the Daily News and an excellent debater) Buckley measured what the college was teaching against what he already believed. Yale generally came out second best; Buckley found his classes and clubs disturbingly secular and collectivist. In "God and Man at Yale" he has drawn...