Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cool weather was too much for the Eliot softball aggregation yesterday afternoon as they dropped another close decision, this time to Adams House, 4 to 3. Hurler Stretch Crichton's bobble-ball failed to baffle the Gold Coasters, and his teammate, balding Stu Bartle, explained that two of the Mastodon's best hitters had jumped to the Piedmont League...
...offered Mrs. Riddle $20,000 for Anesthesia Faith of Hillstead, whose record of 19,741 milk, 1,112 fat was then the record of the breed. My offer . . . was declined, and the cow died without ever having another calf. When Mrs. Riddle founded Avon Old Farms she by no stretch of the imagination owned a cow worth $60,000 or one-tenth as much...
...race. When Assault made his move, Armed began to move also-and the biggest crowd that had ever squeezed into Hialeah Park (34,394 people) let out a roar. Max's binoculars trembled as he watched five horses (Armed and Assault among them) charge into the stretch fighting for the lead. A few moments later a startled hush settled down over 34,394 people...
Coach Moe Berg's freshman basketballers journey to Brown this evening in an attempt to stretch their winning streak to nine straight games. In Cambridge, on December 6, the Yardlings edged out the Bears by a 54 to 48 score...
...mile Alaska Highway, now an all-weather (gravel) road from Dawson Creek, B.C. to Fairbanks, Alaska, was finally opened to tourists. Among new accommodations: public camping grounds (with fresh water and cooking stoves) in the 600-mile stretch through Yukon Territory. Canada's advice to tourists: make reservations early (inns are few & far between) or bring camping equipment...