Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worried for fear he would freeze, scolded him about her wages, wept readily, was devoted, affectionate, jealous. The artist escaped her long enough to get into an innocent scrape with her rival, Anna, and to enjoy a brief affair with the lovely Pauline, with whom he lived during a stretch of exceptionally cold weather. In the end Salamina married a carpenter...
During the stretch from 1876 to 1889 Harvard and Yale played in New Haven, Boston, New York, and at Holmes Field and Jarvis Field in Cambridge. In 1889 and until the break in relations in 1894, the game was played on a neutral field at Hampden Park, Springfield...
...between Playfair and Woodland, with Channing, forcing his way to the front of the remaining pack for a Crimson third place. At the halfway mark, Playfair began to step up the pace, but Woodland gamely matched stride for stride with the Harvard captain, and when they entered the home-stretch, Woodland was in the lead...
...Despite changes in the cast and the natural wearing off which seven months could be expected to bring the presentation is as animated, as profoundly stirring, as magnificently performed as any Shakespearian production of the past ten years which is as far back as the Playgoer feels qualified to stretch his comparison...
...official name of the only railway in Ethiopia is Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien de Djibouti à Addis Ababa. Between magnificent modern stations at either end of the line stretch 494 miles of rough, single-track narrow-gauge roadbed over which a collection of ramshackle second-hand French rolling stock normally makes bi-weekly trips. One of the few pieces of equipment which can compare in splendor with the two terminals is Emperor Haile Selassie's white private car. Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails...