Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up: the $70,000 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park, beating Gallant Knight by a neck after sneaking past Maya on the rail for a fine sprint down the stretch. Gallant Fox has now won $275,000-$38,639 less than the record of Zev, greatest U. S. money-winning horse...
...Folsom Prison Billings, small, brown-haired, looking younger than his 37 years, remarked: "Well, that's that. It doesn't bother me. I've been here 14 years and I'm good for a longer stretch...
...first and second University crews picked out a smooth stretch of about a mile and a half opposite the camp and spent the early evening hours paddling up and down at a low stroke. With last Saturday's time row as the last hard workout expected before the crew lines up with Yale by the bluff across from camp next Friday evening, the oarsmen are thinking hard about individual faults in order to be in top form for the race. The crew seems to be in good spirits now, and appears to have developed more smoothness in the last...
...stand, the King leaned forward; the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duke of Gloucester had their glasses up. The Queen in a long coat and beige hat looked bored. They had come ready for rain, but now, as the horses turned into the stretch the sun broke through and laid a yellow span on the midway-a span that moved like a pacemaker in front of the chasing horses with the tiny bright-colored jockeys pressed against their necks. The crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared as a new horse moved out of the pack...
Psychologists might tell us that the younger generation is becoming neurotic, that they can't sit still for a long stretch of studying without some break of a recreational sort; instructors of the old school will claim the present day student has become lazy through easy curricula, and most students will rationalize their action by believing that recreation will freshen their minds and build up a physical reserve for their wrist to be used in the three-hour penmanship and memory contest...