Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose in the Preakness-cost him this race too? Ten horses, bunched in a feathery cloud of dust, swung into the last turn, and Jockey Jimmy Stout on Granville made his bid. Granville caught the leader, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones. Then down the stretch, while 35,000 people shouted, he outran his own bad luck. Mr. Bones was two and a half lengths back at the finish, Hollyrood was third...
...road is a striking engineering achievement, marked by easy grades and wide curves, which seemingly tempt the average driver to "hit it up," for speeds of 60 m.p.h. and better were common until Highway Patrol Chief Ray Cato started to police the stretch...
...greatest highway project in the world, the Inter-American, if ever completed, will stretch some 12,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina. First proposed at the Fifth International Conference of American states in Santiago, Chile in 1923, the road immediately fired the imagination of the delegates, was undertaken after enthusiastic endorsement by subsequent conferences and by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. When the U. S. Congress appropriated $50,000 in 1929 for a reconnaissance survey to start the work in Central America, the first Inter-American Highway Congress was held in Panama, created a commission which has driven the work ahead...
...start of the Kentucky Derby, William Woodward's bay colt lost his jockey. As though this were not hard luck enough for one horse, Granville lost the Preakness, the Wood Memorial and the Suburban Handicap by almost imperceptible margins, each time after being ahead in the stretch. Ogden Phipp's White Cockade won the Withers. A week later he too was laid up, with bad knees...
...next inning Harvard got four more when Bilodeau tripled to right after an error and hits by Frank Owen and Adzigian and scored himself as Colwell was out at the plate trying to stretch a triple to left...