Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bunched at the first turn, the field strung out in the back stretch with Special Agent in front at the half mile, Sangreal at the three-quarter. Sangreal was still ahead coming into the stretch when Jockey Peters, moving up on Goldeneye, made his bid. For a split second, it looked like a camera finish. Then Sangreal weakened and Goldeneye drew away-to a six-length lead at the wire, with Sangreal second, Ariel Cross third...
...address bore in its plush use of adjectives the inevitable mark of having been composed under the Southern Cross. On the desks of the assembled Congressmen and Justices lay copies of it neatly mimeographed in Portuguese. As President Roosevelt sonorously began, some of his hearers leaned forward attentively to stretch their knowledge of English, others followed with the text, sentence by sentence, with their fingers so as to applaud in the right places...
After lunch home and stretch out on the divan but Madame slays me with her heavy weights, which she drops upon me, defenseless, as I lie. So that I find no comfort, and rising, pick up the small brown Mermaid books that stand between my dachshund bookends. The title-page bears the legend, from Beaumont, "I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine". The books are plays of Beaumont and Fletcher...
...from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1913, Son Charles has met the business problems of the numerous Edison enterprises as energetically as his famed father attacked technical problems in the laboratory. Frequently he could be found in his grey-walled office in West Orange for 17 hours at a stretch. He had his first opportunity to become acquainted with the U. S. Navy and his new chief during the War when his father served as President of the Naval Consulting Board under Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. During those years Charles Edison supervised the manufacture of war materials...
Found at a local Negro theatre enjoying the cinema Down the Stretch, the team announced that they would not go back to work without better food and more financial consideration. Some of them said they had been training on wieners. Howard's students marched out of their classrooms on a sympathy strike. Thereupon Howard canceled the annual Big Game of Negro football, Howard v. Lincoln University (Chester Co., Pa.), scheduled to be played in Washington on Thanksgiving...