Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puritans were ahead going into the stretch, but they caught a crab, and spent enough time recovering to let Eliot slip on to victory. Leverett, Adams, and Lowell were bunched ten seconds behind the winner...
...tripled to lead off the next inning for the visitors and scored almost immediately when John Caul field grounded into a double-play. The Crimson tied the game in the seventh on a walk to Crosby and another triple--this by Ralph Robinson. Robinson was out trying to stretch his hit into a home...
...Sooner than radio listeners became of him. As he had done a year ago with Derby Winner Ponder, gravel-voiced Radio Caller Clem McCarthy overlooked Middleground's stretch rush, barely got him under the wire...
...train into Tomahawk by an agreed deadline with at least one paying passenger on board. The run starts against some obstacles: hostile Indians, a stagecoach tycoon bent on thwarting the railroad, and the dispiriting fact that the road has run out of track in the 40-mile stretch between Epitaph and Dead Horse Point. With one reluctant paying passenger (Dan Dailey) firmly tied to the locomotive, a caravan headed by a sharpshooting lady peace officer (Anne Baxter) sets out to haul the engine by mule to the point where the track begins again. Among those along for the ride: Madame...
...counts for this race, a half mile and 39 feet shorter than the usual mile and three-quarter test, is sprinting ability; and this has been the varsity's forte thus far. In three races the Harvard oarsmen have overhauled their opposition by powerful and fast rowing in the stretch...