Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still in the Army, the little man wanted to be allowed to register and attend classes till he returned to his employers for final separation. No vet was he and no civilian, but the hospitable dean saw fit to stretch a point and in a gesture of good will extended his hand with an affable, "Good luck, Mr. Twombly." Harking back to his Army etiquette, young Twombly replied, "Thank you, Sargent...
...beach near Naharia that I saw the rusted and rotting hulk of a tiny craft that had brought a few hundred "unauthorized" immigrants to Palestine. Named after Hannah Szenesh, this boat escaped detection by His Majesty's Imperial Navy, and was able to unload its human cargo on this stretch of lonely beach. The operation had been carefully planned. Strategie defenses were set up and the approaching roads were mined. As night fell, some hundred young men and women took their assigned positions, and waited. They waited far into the night but no word or sight of the boat...
Three months ago, the Combined Rubber Committee, composed of six countries, had the world rubber situation all figured out. The supply of crude rubber, the Committee thought, would not stretch enough to meet demand for a year or two. To prevent prices from soaring, the price of crude was pegged at 23½ ? a lb., f.o.b. Far Eastern ports. The British Government agreed to buy all Malayan rubber offered at this price. But by last week the pegged price meant little. So much rubber was pouring into Malayan ports that the price was dropping...
...Crimson men? Or that another 22.2 percent are adherents of the H.L.U. The membership of the investigating committee was chosen by a small percentage of the voters, for the issue then as now aroused little interest. We therefore charge first, that Student Council reform cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called a popular movement, and that its members are for the most part wheels and friends of wheels in the organizations initiating the move, namely, the H.L.U., and AVC, and the Crimson. It is conceivable that these men represent these organizations, but to claim that they...
Twenty minutes later the first contingent of finishers should pull into sight on the stretch back of Newell, which is also the finish line. The race amounts to a time trial for every man on the squad, and the ten best times will give some indication of this fall's Varsity and what...