Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographed eyes of one of the Institute's professors, who at that very instant was "concentrating on you." The Postmaster General also scotched that enterprise. Japanese became best customers of another Neal brainchild, the Cartilage Co., which sold a halter by which runts hung themselves from ceilings to stretch their vertebrae. About 1904, Mr. Neal went to Europe, where he made caffeine from tea sweepings. Back in the U. S., he claimed to be the only man making aspirin in this country before the War. He also sold wrinkle eradicators. weight reducers, bust developers, hair restorers, Nuxated Iron* which...
...lawyer combed Austria by telephone and telegraph for his last hope, Catholic President Wilhelm Miklas. Locating him in the far Alps opening a new mountain railway, he begged the President to stretch the boy's life beyond the allotted three hours. As pious in a crisis as Chancellor Dollfuss, President Miklas went to mass, spent half an hour alone praying for Divine guidance...
...single stage set of a tenant farmer's shack, front yard and well in the Georgia tobacco country. Even the smell of hot dust, of unwashed bedding and dried food leavings seems to drift out over Manhattan audiences. In this unhurried shiftless atmosphere the events of Tobacco Road stretch themselves with lazy brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen, it moved Manhattan reviewers to call its characters "livestock," "pigs," "guinea pigs," "weird savages," "the primitive human animal writhing in the throes of gender," "foul and degenerate parcel of folks...
...George S. Scott '34 will start the 50-yard sprint, facing Bowdoin's sole star, Carson, the Maine hope in both this event and the dive. Wallace, who established a Freshman record for the furlong when he swam against Yale for the 1935 outfit, teamed with Fallon over this stretch last season. In the century sprint, George Wightman '34, and Herbert M. Howe '34, both experienced men, will carry the Crimson colors...
...explicitly confines a science course to one which has a regular laboratory, in which the conclusions of theory are constantly tried, and often abridged, by the rigors of practice. Geography 1a and 1b have a laboratory, but it is a laboratory sui generis, and only by a stretch can it be said to fulfill even the spirit of the requirement. Its work consists in the answering of a series of questions, with the help of yearbooks and atlases. The questions are those of economics and sociology; the answers are those of economics and sociology; the method of answering them combines...