Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filled carriers are transported between 22 city post offices from the Battery to 125th Street and over to Brooklyn through a pipe fastened to Brooklyn Bridge. Curiously, a private company owns and operates the system with the Post Office as its sole customer. It is, with a two-mile stretch in Boston, the last survivor of similar lines that once operated busily in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago. Last week it looked as if Manhattan's system might also succumb...
Some jobs, such as ushering at chapel or at the stadium, which are deemed of too honorary a nature for a paid hand, could be performed by members of the Student Council or of the House Committees. The number needed for the position is certainly small, and by no stretch of credulity does it total 47 good men and true selected by a more or less random rippling of the pages of a three year old Red Book...
Playfair's book was written in June was set up in type and will be published next Fall by Houghton Miflin in a series of books for boys with Harvard as a background. He was unwilling to stretch the coincidence too far yesterday but said that gold and jade were stolen in his story also...
Sibelius has conceived much of his music wandering through the forests surrounding his house. When engrossed in his work he keeps irregular hours, prefers to compose late at night. He proudly remembers that in his younger days he often worked three nights and two days at a stretch. Seldom does he use the piano when composing. He conceives and elaborates his ideas in his mind and puts pen to paper only when every detail of the score has been thought out. Once his notes are down on paper, he seldom makes alterations, and has often sent scores to publishers without...
Contesting for all-House cross country honors, undergraduate runners will pace the river stretch today...