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Word: stretches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Place & Show. In Omaha, Marty Kaplan, ahead in the last lap of a swimming race, put on his stretch drive, swam right out of his trunks, got rattled, finished second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

What makes a great teacher great? Last week one of education's timeless questions got a partial answer: a great teacher makes his students stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Gadflies | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...thousand other villagers of Wharfedale, Waldendale and the emerald green valley of Wensley were joined in their hunt by a posse of army lads equipped with walkie-talkies; at one point they thought they had him surrounded, but the murderer fled to a stretch of wild country where no man could follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Killer | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...dead in Coverdale and the adjoining hamlet of Horsehouses. Jim was shoeing a pony when the word came, but with 400 of his countrymen he set out again. Down the line of the River Ure, from Aysgarth to Leyburn, the Dalesmen tracked their quarry. Then, on a lonely stretch of track near Bolton Castle, Constable Charles Jackson laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Killer | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 77, dislikes buildings "all dressed up in military fashion, heels together, eyes front. . . ." He makes his houses lie flat on the ground and stretch out. To his followers, the old master is a modern Michelangelo whose sculptures can be lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wright Makes It Right | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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