Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mire and mud. On to the next well. It yielded only a brownish broth . . . a field flask with drinking water . . . today in the East is worth more than anything that can happen to you. . . . We yearn for so much . . . for one hour without the din of battle, for one stretch of summer landscape that doesn't smell of conflagration and death, for one walk through a street of peace with children's laughter and clinking of glasses reaching your ear from a jolly window. Yet all this becomes threadbare and infinitesimal compared with the yearning for the great...
Second Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat, 22, of the Royal Bombay Sappers, was told, one day during the British conquest of Ethiopia, to clear a road of Italian mines. The Italians had sown the dangerous metallic seeds as prodigally as some hardy grain. In one stretch of four miles Lieut. Bhagat dug up 14 separate mine fields each containing 300 mines spread over 250 yards on each side of the road...
...commercial life line has been dead since Italy's entrance into the war forced merchant ships to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Now, even as a military seaway, choked by two such bottlenecks as the 100-mile strait between Sicily and Tunisia and the 250-mile stretch between Crete and Libya, it was of little...
...surging shells swing away from the starting line at Bartlett's Cove and head down the four mile stretch of blue Thames toward the Railway Bridge at 7 o'clock this Saturday, Harvard and Yale oarsmen will match strokes in the seventy-ninth annual meeting of these traditional rivals...
...squad. His victory over Yale's highly acclaimed Mac Main was one of the upsets which led to a Harvard triumph. His 4:29.6 for the race was his best time to date, but estimates show that if he had not had to buck the wind up the back stretch, the clocking would have been about six seconds lower...