Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need to go to far-off Saudi Arabia to find Geigers chasing oil pipeline "pigs" [TIME, Nov. 20]. Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. have had the same done for them on the 500-mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero...
Beyond Koto there was a bad stretch of road winding through steep gorges. Moving at 3 m.p.h., the column halted several times while engineers filled shell craters in the road. At one point there was a four-hour stop while the engineers built abutments on both sides of a chasm so that a bridge span would reach across. The airplanes silenced much of the enemy fire, except on one agonizing day when the air cover was grounded by a driving snowstorm...
...Social Anthropology, pointed out. They reckoned time spans in 52 year cycles, at the end of which they had a massive celebration around a four aided temple, each of which had a 52 stop stairway leading up to it. When the celebration was over, they started a 52 year stretch all over again...
Jordan moved to Amherst in 1932 amid a change of presidents with the resulting confusion. His 17-year stay there was interrupted by a three-year stretch in the Navy, during which time he cleared up difficulties that had arisen at various V-12 stations...
More hydrogen keeps appearing to replace that which condenses. Galaxies are never so thick that they clog the universe, for the addition of new hydrogen makes space "stretch" more & more. Adjacent galaxies move apart, and when they have moved enough, new galaxies form out of new hydrogen in the newly stretched space between them...