Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina join on the map of South America lies the Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers. British Explorer Julian Duguid has described the Pilcomayo as "a vast, foul-smelling, oozy stretch of bog with as much movement as an unsqueezed sponge. ... An Englishman may obtain some slight insight into the discomfort of penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary...
Last week the 72nd Congress waded out of a dark and troubled jungle of legislation and went home to rest until after the elections. For 224 days-the longest stretch since 1922-a Republican Senate and a Democratic House had been groping and stumbling, hacking and thrashing through the thickest set of national problems that ever sprang up in the U. S. in peacetime. Midnight adjournment found the Senate mouthing over Prohibition, the House swapping political wisecracks and President Hoover absent from the Capitol...
Venzke had a field of eight to beat in the final. He let Henry Brocksmith of In diana hold the lead till the back stretch of the last lap before he sprinted to pass him. What happened then made it the most amazing race of the meet. When Venzke took the lead, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, a Harvard miler who was beaten in the intercollegiate meet, sprinted to over take him. Venzke matched Hallowell's pace for 20 strides then dropped. Two more collegians, Frank Crowley of Manhattan College and Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, closed in and passed Venzke...
...Millersburg to witness Ohio's first public whipping in more than half a century. Questioned as to his legal authority to impose such a sentence. Judge Putnam exclaimed: "This court is determined to eradicate crime and is prepared to emulate the principles and policies of Thomas Jefferson and stretch all laws until they crack...
...converse with the Maharajah from time to time. That strange potentate, with his Pekingese face and nasturtium-colored tongue, was a fantastic hodge-podge of East and West. Once while out motoring to catch sight of a mongoose which would bring good luck, Tutor Ackerley admired a particular stretch of scenery. Unfortunately that particular land was not a part of Chhokrapur, belonged to the Maharajah of Deori, with whom the Prince was not on speaking terms. "Well, he's got a beautiful State," said Tutor Ackerley. "Very beautiful," His Highness agreed irritably. "I should like to grab it-like...