Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot's quintet fell victim to a burst of hot shooting by Dunster in the last few minutes of play, 46 to 42. Stretch Crichion of the Elephants rang up the top score of the evening with 14 points, but his one man attack wilted against Dunster's smooth team-work and the seesaw game, 22 to 22 at the half, dropped to the Funsters...
Kopp's quintet is out to stretch its seven and three record. Dartmouth, Yale, and a much heralded skirmish with the Crimson Freshmen loom close on the schedule, and the Jayvees look to Suffolk as a test of their newly acquired top-condition...
...Chileans had it easiest. Their shortend stretch-204 miles out of a total of 559-rises gently from the sea through nitrate fields to the border at Socompa. But the Argentines had to push up through the barren, eroded land that the early Spaniards called "the country of desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter...
Arline, 35, has been married five times, including one three-year stretch with Bob Topping's older brother Dan (who has been married four times). Arline's other husbands: Cinema Director Wesley Ruggles, R.A.F. Captain James R. Addams* and Huckster Vincent Morgan Ryan, to whom she was still married when she met Bob in Hollywood and fell "plain mad nutsie in love...
...actual occasion exists for but an atomic moment, a short stretch of time which cannot be subdivided. It takes the whole of such a moment for an occasion to make itself be, and when that moment is over the occasion passes away. Perishing is thus the inevitable accompaniment of creation...