Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank Costello is now serving a thirty day stretch in the Workhouse for contempt of court. With good behavior, he will be back in court after twenty-five days to be asked the same embarrassing questions by the same grand jury. If he again invokes the Fifth Amendment, he may be sent back to the Workhouse for another thirty. For a man with homes on Central Park West and Sands Point, Long Island, this can be very depressing...
Sophomore standing will give the history department a "predisposition" toward granting advanced standing May says. The department will also look with special favor on advanced standing sophomores who plan to stretch their program out to four years. For those students presenting advanced placement credit in history the department would be "inclined" to regard course reduction plans favorably. Advanced Placement, however, according to May, will not give the student any measurable advantage over one whose work within the department has been of high quality...
Wharton gave the rain-spattered spectators a thrill as he came from dead last at the beginning of the stretch to overtake Eli Bob Skerritt and win the 440 in 48.3. Gordon just missed third, as he ran the distance in 48.8. Halpern outlasted Dodge in the 220 to win by a yard...
...parts; National Cash Register this week marketed a "Post-Tronic" banking machine that electronically posts depositors' checks, virtually eliminates the possibility of a clerical error. In another few months one Midwest state will even field-test an electronic control system to steer and otherwise operate cars in a stretch of superhighway...
...hour later Zwirner came back to set another meet record in the two-mile. Reider, who had set the pace for most of the race, held a lead of at least 30 yards as Zwirner went into the last lap. Reider began to kick, but on the back-stretch Zwirner opened up a sprint which carried him past Reider at the beginning of the straightaway to win by ten yards in 9:24.3. Dyke Benjamin took third for the varsity...