Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers were accosted by 35 women along a 120-yard stretch. In the same area about 100 males were "engaged in this vile business. In Piccadilly 22 men were loitering. Many of them were painted and powdered and in a few cases were wearing high-heeled shoes.";Concurrently, with the opening of Easter Law Sittings, began the greatest flood of British divorces...
...Jumbo outfit led by their captain and ace pitcher, Al Hatch, opened with a 12 to 2 victory over Lowell Textile on Wednesday. Coach Ken Nash, beginning his twentieth year as Tufts mentor, will field a veteran lineup with Hatch undoubtedly on the mound in an attempt to stretch his personal string of victories over the Stahlmen to three...
...Jumbos were under wraps as they ran through Lowell Textile on Wednesday, with ace flinger Al Hatch doing only a four inning stretch. He will be ready to extend his personal string of victories over Harvard tomorrow. Coach Nash has not been impressed with the hitting power his men pack and looks to the game tomorrow as the first test of the year...
...first time, Term III for Franklin Roosevelt last week began to look like a political impossibility. That thought, growing in the Capitol, spread down the green stretch of the Mall, into the tomblike buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue. Washington, dimly and by degrees, had a foretaste of the shock that will come to the country if Franklin Roosevelt removes himself from the political scene...
Around Salinas, Calif., the dark, rich soil is crossed with vivid green avenues of lettuce that stretch almost unbroken from one side of the valley to the other. On the south they end at the base of dry, rocky hills. On the north they end at the shining waters of Monterey Bay, where coves and inlets penetrate, unseen until a watcher is almost upon them, between the level cultivated fields. At the height of the season the 4,500 pickers who swarm over these fields, to take from them their average annual yield of 500,000,000 heads of lettuce...