Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past few days, reading again in TIME and LITE the accounts of the annual American Legion Convention, I am moved to wonder (as I often have before) by what stretch of the imagination one could justify the cities where those brawls are held in allowing the roughnecks who attend these bawdy annual exhibitions in getting away with them...
...local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth drives converged toward the city. By 1935 the whole vast project, costing an estimated $100,000,000 was completed-except at the city's most vital point, a scant quarter mile stretch of the old Boulevard across the Chicago River, which still clotted at each change of a traffic light...
...office of Owner Powel Crosley Jr., quietly walked out again without any contract at all. It was no coincidence that the Giants had just slipped into first place in the National League and the Reds had just slumped into last place. With both major leagues entering the home stretch of their pennant races and fans already looking forward to the World Series a fortnight off, owners, players, and above all, managers, were looking backward with mingled satisfaction and rue as their six-month season drew to a close...
...speeches, plus hours standing with right arm rising and falling as the party members passed in review are always a "personal and physical strain," and he welcomed the cool weather in Nürnberg. "When you keep moving your arm up and down in salute for hours at a stretch, you generate heat," Hitler laughed. "This continuous movement, coupled with the emotional strain, is very trying in hot weather...
...Japan eleven days before (TIME, Sept. 6), is on the Peiping-Suiyuan rail-road that sweeps through Nankow Pass, northern key to the fat, fertile plains that loop round the Shantung Peninsula. With Kalgan and the Nankow Pass already in their hands, the Japanese had only to capture the stretch of railroad from Kalgan to Suiyuan to find themselves with a stranglehold on North China...