Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Millions of TV fans and some 40,000 racegoers at New York's Belmont Park (who backed the Dancer down to 1-4) gasped as the field rounded the turn at the head of the stretch. With only a quarter of a mile of the mile-long race to go, the Dancer was fifth, a full seven lengths behind front-running Straight Face. At that point Jockey Eric Guerin gave the Dancer four sharp raps with his whip...
Reasons for this preference are hard to find. Fogg is a dingy room, and its chairs, especially over a three hour stretch, are more backbreaking than most. Besides this uninspiring setting, students take a ten minute handicap in switching their eyes to night vision. Fogg's chief asset is its equipment for Fine Arts slide tests. But this is small consolation when the normally subdued lighting is turned down even further when slides are shown...
...buyers who still shop with an eye on fuel economy last week got an idea which cars can stretch a gallon the farthest. In the Fifth Annual Mobilgas Economy Run, experts drove 20 competing stock models from every major U.S. automaker over 1,335 miles of some of the ruggedest roads in the U.S., and made every drop of gas count...
...T.W.A., the new planes are late 40% of the time. Westbound, the DC-7s do even worse, take up to twelve hours, because of headwinds. Temporarily, American has been getting exemptions from the CAA rule against flight crews staying on the job for longer than eight hours at a stretch. But last week CAA itself was checking arrival times to see if the schedules are realistic...
Less mindful that he is writing about the making of an American than about the making of steel. Author White sometimes puts his hero through private experiences at a whirling pace. Within a ten-page stretch. Peter meets and rebuffs his first American prostitute, goes inside his first American church (a Roman Catholic cathedral), sees his first prizefight and enters his first speakeasy. Seething with ambition, he decides that love is off-limits and only strays once, into a brief affair with his plump landlady...