Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People seem to buy their yearbook to serve as sort of a slick-paper, permanently covered scrapbook of a class and its stretch at the College. Pick up 315 and thumb through it. You will find yourself pointing out your friends, discovering the name of the man across the hall, and looking for your own picture in the back of the Jubilee or in a crowd of 500 people around the Lampoon's steps. This is the present, contemporary function of 315. In a few years your reading focus may switch somewhat. 315 will become a reference volume, dedicated...
...crowd was not quite so sure. The post-time favorite (3-1) was the Greentree two-for-one entry (Hall of Fame and Big Stretch), which finished 9th and 18th in the Kentucky Derby. But a lot of the crowd's wiser money (4-1) believed in Burch and Bold for three good reasons: 1) Jockey Eddie Arcaro; 2) the sound hunch that Bold could have had a better ride when he lost to Alerted by a neck in the Preakness Prep earlier in the week; and 3) the fact that Bold had never run a bad race (three...
...field. And in the following inning Northeastern made it 4 to 3 when (again with two out) Red Kelly followed Fran Pineau's single with a slice down the right field line that went for three bases. Kelly was thrown out, Walt Greeley to Cavanaugh to Wade, trying to stretch...
After six straight days on the stand, George Marshall's 70-year-old frame sagged a bit and his voice was fading. "He sounds just like I feel after I have been talking for four or five hours at a stretch," said Fulbright. The hearing record had already swollen to about 401,000 words. And there were still weeks...
...weight suits to sell for $95 in about 60 stores all over the U.S., including San Francisco's Roos Bros., Boston's Kennedy's, Kansas City's Palace Clothing Co. Suits made from Dacron are lighter and cooler than summer-weight wool, will not wrinkle, stretch or fade; the crease in the trousers can only be removed with a hot iron. Last summer, Witty made experimental suits for 200 test customers. One man accidentally tumbled out of a canoe while wearing his Dacron suit; after hanging the suit up to dry for a few hours...