Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reinforced Harvard hockey team with the redoubtable Giddens back-in its lineup will enter the home stretch of the 1930 hockey season tonight when it faces off against the University Club sextet at the Boston Garden at 8.30 o'clock...
...only mystery connected with the Moffat tunnel. Begun in 1923, completed in 1928, the tunnel cost the city of Denver and certain nearby counties $15,470,000 to build. A special ventilating plant (forced draft for eastbound trains, induced draft for westbound) keeps the six-mile stretch clear of smoke. Expensive and well ventilated engineering tour de force though it is, the Moffat tunnel is little used. Few trains go puffing through it because there are no traffic centres beyond it more important than Craig, Oak Creek, Steamboat Springs (pop. 1,000). After passing through the tunnel, the Denver & Salt...
...Westward Ho!, attacked him, calling him Jesuitical, Newman's series of replies (the Apologia pro vita sua) not only demolished Kingsley but reestablished Newman's reputation as the most important religious figure in England. He wrote the Apologia in seven weeks, sometimes working for 22 hours at a stretch. Says Biographer May: "It has been proclaimed a classic?which means that it is one of those books' which people say they must read some time, and never read at all." No poet, Newman wrote (while still an Anglican) one of the most famed of English hymns, "Lead, Kindly Light...
Another stupendous Canadian air stretch, and one which counts more to the Dominion, is the 1,800 miles from Calgary to Herschel Island. The East-West route parallels the Great Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railway systems. Into the far North goes no railroad except the new line from The Pas to Churchill on Hudson Bay. What the railroads did in developing the U. S. West, airplane companies are doing for Canada's North, a district almost as great as the whole...
Barry Wood, of Harvard, is a star at football, hockey, baseball and tennis. This competitive list is too much to attempt in any one stretch of twelve months. Wood is allowing his system little or no chance to accumulate a nerve reserve. He is giving his heart action too much to carry...