Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale athletic department, renowned for swimming, has its most out-standing facilities available to teach future Olympic champions. In addition to the exhibition pool described above, the building also contains one of the largest suspended swimming pools in the world. Used primarily for practice, this 167-foot stretch of water is divided by a movable bulkhead, which can be adjusted to make the pool fit any standard American or Metric course...
...Empire or the Church, all of which in the end draw their sustenance from love and life? The churchmen, high and low, have commended Margaret on putting duty above love. I can understand their sense of triumph. But their congratulations will be cold cheer in the dreary years that stretch ahead...
...race crossed the finish line at the M.I.T. dock yesterday a full length and one-half ahead of the second Crimson crew. Bob Foley, freshman stroke last year, stroked the winners, all of whom are sophomores. The race was run over a choppy one and three-quarter mile stretch of the Charles River between the MTA bridge and M.I.T. Despite a 15 mile per hour head wind, Foley's crew finished in good time for this stage of the season...
...have been running "paper-jet" flights across the U.S., figuring speed, payload, turn-around time, maintenance costs, etc., to give Patterson the information he needed. He chose Douglas' DC-8 over Boeing's 707 because he feels that it has more room for improvement, the same big stretch that permitted Douglas to beef up its DC-4 into the DC-6 and DC-7. Even so, the first models will have plenty of speed for U.S. air travelers. Carrying 112 to 140 passengers United's swept-wing DC-8s will cross the U.S. nonstop at altitudes...
...great race, with a battle in doubt for at least the first third. At the end of the first two mile stretch, however, it became apparent that unless something very unexpected happened, the Crimson would take five of the first six places. The contest was between Reider, Tom Hogen of Yale, Ken Wilson and Al Wills, with a group composed of Captain Don French, Dave McLean, and Dick Wharton of the varsity hanging just a bit behind...