Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beginner's Plum. Georgia-born Fred Hooper has been doing all right since 1923, the year he cleared a 15-mile stretch of land on contract for the Florida East Coast Railroad. Out of that shoestring venture grew a flourishing construction business. Hooper later bought a 5,038-acre farm in Alabama's "black belt" country and a long-legged quarter-horse named Royal Prince, that was unbeautiful but fast. Winning match races with this "moneymaking horse," he dented so many rich Georgia and Florida farmers that people stopped betting against...
...onto an airplane for California. Flashing to the front in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Felipe Stakes, Olympia was still there at the end of the seven-furlong race. But in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, at a mile and an eighth, he weakened in the stretch and finished second to Old Rockport, an unsung outsider. Flown back to Florida, Olympia won the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes (at a mile and an eighth), then headed for New York. A rugged, unemotional colt, Olympia seemed to thrive on traveling...
...Hygiene Department has a fine big building near the trolley tracks on Mt. Auburn Street for the care and feeding of mild illnesses. Students who have managed to avoid stretch at Stillman don't know what they're missing, those who have been there find the experience unforgettable...
...fifth on two singles, a walk, and a heave into their field by Cliff Crosby. But again Harvard struck back in the latter half of the inning. Harry Cavanaugh singled, advanced on Godin's sacrifice, and scored on a double by John Caulfield. Caulfield was thrown out trying to stretch his hit to a triple...
Commencement of the Class of 1949 will be a test case, Mrs. Maguire added. More than 200 seniors and record groups of candidates for M.A.'s, Ph.D.'s, and Management Training Program certificates and their guests will stretch Sanders Theater seating facilities to capacity...