Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling-above you, a grim black sky; underneath, the revolving sea, and you are quite alone in a frail machine, every moment fearing that the motor will fail and you will have to face calamity...
...rowed down below the Tech Boat House in the Basin at a fast paddle, stopping at the Tech float before starting upstream again to let T. E. Armstrong '32 take the place of F. F. Colloredo-Mansfeld '32, who is suffering from a minor ailment which makes rowing on stretches uncomfortable. With Armstrong at stroke, the eight rowed upstream at little more than a fast paddle gradually increasing their speed until they had come into the stretch above the Western Avenue Bridge, where they raised their stroke steadily to about 40 to the minute...
...clear as the horses, digging inside toward the rail , formed an irregular phalanx. A few yards further on Alcibiades, the only filly in the race, passed High Foot and held the lead past the grandstand to the clubhouse turn. As they swung around the turn into the back stretch with a mile still to go, a big bay colt swung to the outside, gaining ground. It was Sande on Gallant Fox?an amazing, disdainful thing to do, for when a jockey swings outside so early in a race it shows he does not think much of the other horses. While...
...slow times, the Crimson could do nothing, and seemed without the slightest chance of placing. At the end, when Syracuse was tiring badly, the eight might have retrieved a poor second; but, if that was possible, it was not done. A good sprint served only to shorten a wide stretch of water; perhaps if it had been started sooner, Harvard could have passed the tired Orange boat...
Last week the Department of Commerce announced a visual beacon will be erected at Bellefonte, Pa., in the middle of dread "Hell's Stretch" (graveyard of many a mail ship), for tests by NAT pilots on the New York-Cleveland...