Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ourselves politically, that we sit down in earnest and quiet with atlas and history and follow your correspondents around the world; that our young son reads TIME as religiously as he does his Calvert lessons; that we feel we have a private periscope to search the wide horizons which stretch from this minuscule point of vantage, it makes dull reading but true...
Walsh easily won the 440 in 54.5 seconds. The feature of this race, however, was the stretch sprint of Welch, who drove up through the pack in the last turn to take second place...
...short cuts he could. He had done hundreds of such sweaty, commonplace jobs, and all the garage owner wanted was a hole to supply water for car washing during the New York water shortage. At 50, Dominick had six children and a pretty auburn-haired wife, and had to stretch dollars as far as they would...
...mile the Harvard crew was rowing smoothly at a steady 32 strokes a minute. M.I.T. was rowing a little higher. As the twelve varsity crews hit the final stretch, M.I.T. and Harvard spurted into the lead, upped the beat to nearly 40 strokes a minute as they skimmed across the finish line...
...into Argentina, but he did not have the permit from Argentina that he needed. Not till Braniff got the State Department, which was considering economic assistance to Argentina, to do some diplomatic stiff-arming for him did President Perón decide to play ball. The new flights will stretch to 10,583 miles the routes over which Braniff operates a fleet of 33 planes...