Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year 5,000 A.D., if shown the present Neutrality Act of the United States, along with the recent speeches of the President, could not by the wildest stretch of vision deduce that they were expressions of one and the same government. On the one hand is the Neutrality Law, careful, measured, and calm. The reader can see written into it the long toil, and debate, and painstaking devotion of its makers, men full of zeal for one thing--keeping a nation out of war. On the other hand are Mr. Roosevelt's addresses, stirring and emotional, speaking of a civilization...
...inevitably bring heart disease and arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). There is a great difference, he continued, between natural withering and the "external insults" of disease. With age the human heart grows broader at the base, more pointed at the apex. Heart muscle fibres turn dark brown, heart valves stretch like old rubber tubes, lose their youthful elasticity. But all of these changes are normal, none spells doom. In healthy persons "the cardiac pump itself usually functions without faltering into advanced...
...steel and dollars, he was brought up, educated at Shadyside Academy and Cornell. From 1908 to 1914 young Joe learned the oil business-five nights without sleep bringing in a new Illinois well, driving eight-ox teams with loads of pipe through West Virginia mud, laying a 20-mile stretch of solid-mahogany corduroy-road in Venezuela. During World War I he joined Sun Oil's Philadelphia office as aide to Elder Brother John Howard, who is a little taller, greyer, soberer. In 1916 Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had been founded in Chester, Pa. largely to build...
...smart, middleaged, successful advertising-man, who had turned his hand to conducting publicity campaigns for Florida politicos, set out to drive the 212-mile stretch between Jacksonville and Tampa. He reached Tampa alive but different: on the way he had had a dazzling vision of life as it could be, had said good-by to the beliefs which until then had stimulated his business career. Thinking he might have gone crazy, he consulted doctors, acquaintances, himself. But nothing relieved his perplexity until one day he wrote some verses about the English coronation-which he immediately sent to every paper...
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, William Harridge, Ford Frick are as familiar to baseball fans as the seventh-inning stretch...