Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren. In its Pullmans and dim-lit coaches, most of its capacity load of passengers were asleep. The three Diesel-powered locomotives which make it the fastest of the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami trains had a clear stretch of track toward that day's sunny warmth in Florida...
Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity quintet will attempt to stretch its winning streak to four games this evening when it tangles with Dick Cochoran's squad from Tufts. A preliminary Jayvee contest will precede the Varsity clash, which will begin at the usual time of 8:45 o'clock...
Bevin went far beyond this cue, but in doing so he gave UNO its strongest stimulant in many months. Bevin insisted that Britain stood wholeheartedly behind the United Nations Organization and would utilize it-"stretch it to the limit of its capacity from the security point of view." He added: "There must be no weakening of the institutions which were built at San Francisco...
Ernest Hemingway, whose first marriage lasted nearly six years, his second thirteen, filed suit for a Havana divorce after a five-year stretch with Writer (The Trouble I've Seen) Martha Gellhorn...
...basis of Cake's report, the outlook for tire makers was brighter than they had expected. The U.S. will probably get 400,000 tons of the Far East's 1946 production, which will be blended with synthetic to stretch the supply. Estimated passenger tire production next year...