Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hardest stretch in the 17-mile course is the pull up and over Chestnut Hill. Balloon-tired bikes may have difficulty making that one, but they will be given a 20-minute handicap...
...CRIMSON article states that Allston Burr of the Class of 1889 has left an unrestricted gift of $1,500,000 to the University. If converted into dollar bills and laid end to end, this sum would stretch from Cambridge to somewhere south of Hartford on the Wilbur Cross Highway. If used more intelligently, the income would pay all the expenses for the Harvard education of 15 men a year. Otherwise, the sum might by put into the running endowment to lower the tuition or the room and board bills, or to renew such institutions as the training table. It could...
Home Tombs. The seventh child of a Cookham organist, Spencer has stuck to the town all his life (except for a stretch of military service in World War I) and crammed his religious paintings with its people and places. Like his 1926 Resurrection, which now hangs in London's Tate Gallery, Spencer's new version of Judgment Day is laid in the Cookham graveyard. Its risen dead are a queerly turned lot, dressed in puppet-show clothes. They are tightly knotted into a composition that borrows something both from cubism and from the 16th Century Flemish master, Pieter...
...Straight Dope. In San Quentin, Calif., George Vierra, serving a seven-year stretch, got a sentence of one to six more years after guards found him in his cell preparing marijuana that he got from the prison stone quarry...
Thayer was supposed to be primed to go under 50 seconds in the quarter, but something went wrong and he ran second to Ed Grntsner's 51--mediocre even in the bad weather. Ahern of Holy Cross, paced the mile, kicked on the back stretch, and won in 4:38.1, with Terrior Dick Fitzgerald second and Dave Cairns third...