Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among the first 100,000 to advise you that the vehicle in your cable-car drawing is no cable car. It is supposed to, be the old trolley which ran on Fillmore Street and for a brief, hilly stretch was hauled up the grade by the weight of [another] trolley going down. . . CLINT MOSHER San Francisco...
Borrowing a phrase from Majority Leader Wallace White, he was ready to cast his vote against Lilienthal as "temperamentally unfitted to head any important Government agency." Said he: "Lilienthal is a typical power-hungry bureaucrat, one of the group of men who . . . have defied Congress . . . have attempted to stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes...
...General Ho Peng-chu, who had been first a Japanese, then a Communist puppet. Ho was captured by the Communists eleven days after he switched over to the Government with his 15,000 men; but the damage had been done, and the Nationalists were able to clear a considerable stretch of track...
...Lilienthal subscribed to the gradual-surrender-of-secrets feature of the report which emphasized the need for security at each stage of expanding international control. Just as closely related to fact is "Mr. Lilienthal is one of those typical power-hungry bureaucrats who in recent years . . . have attempted to stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes . . . have sought money from the public purse to help carry out their plans, concealing as far as possible what the money was used for." Alongside this statement balance the financial statements of the TVA, which edges closer toward a profit each year...
Yale's powerful squash team white-washed Jack Baraby's Varsity by a 9 to 0 count Saturday to stretch their season's record to eleven wins without a setback. The Freshmen turned in a better performance, but also lost...