Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mighty roar from 100,000 unparched throats dribbled off into silence. In the Churchill Downs jockey room skinny, Brooklyn-born Warren Mehrtens sponged the dirt off his face. Said he: "I knew I had 'em all at the head of the stretch-and oh, what a wonderful feeling...
Front-running Spy Song and stretch-driving Hampden were closest. Elizabeth Arden Graham's even-money entry finished out of the money. Knockdown ran out of gas after seven furlongs; Lord Boswell, with usually shrewd Eddie Arcaro up, twice ran into pockets on the backstretch. This week's $100,000 Preakness at Baltimore would tell whether Assault was really that good...
Guessing Game. Feller was finally ready for the first pitch. His arms heaved from below his knees to a great overhead stretch, his left leg twisted up & around, he practically put his gloved hand in the batter's face, his right arm snapped through with as much wrist English as though he were cracking a blacksnake whip. The Yankee lead-off man hardly saw the first one that buzzed by with a full two-inch...
...Academy, Rutgers, Princeton, Cornell, MIT, Columbia, and Pennsylvania will break together at 5:40 o'clock. The event traditionally held on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, will be held on the Severn river for the first time in its history over a fairly straight, current-free mile-and three-quarter stretch...
...corollary to relaxation, the stretch, if allowed to take its full and uninterrupted course, provides one of the richest sensations that man enjoys . . . [but] the toenails should be kept short, or damage to sheets may result...