Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often composed lying in bed on a flood of pillows, cursing elegantly at the gout but sticking to his scores for 16 hours at a stretch. His popular songs had titles like How Do I Love Thee, Spring's First Kiss, I Love Thee So, Can I Forget. He wrote concert reviews for many years on the old New York World and Journal. In 1920, attending a supper in his honor, 60-year-old Reginald de Koven was stricken with apoplexy. He died a few minutes later...
...most embarrassing moment, when I was walking along a houseless stretch, was to spot a soldier on the top of a lorry changing trousers (the insides of the lorries were packed full with stores). At the crucial moment, when I was sure I'd have to turn about, he turned, saw me, colored as scarlet as I felt, clutched his trousers, and held them like grim death...
Would this stretch-drive carry him on to victory? State by state, there was a Republican surge of strength. G.O.P. Chairman Herb Brownell joked about hiring a few pessimists, to keep him from getting too happy. He said he couldn't believe all the glowing good news that flooded in; for if the reports were true, or even close to the truth, Tom Dewey was not only elected, but by a landslide...
...hardly seems possible that we are at the end of our Junior term. Two-thirds of what once seemed to us to be an interminable stretch of a year course is new behind us. During this memorable period so many things have happened that it will take the rest of our natural lives to even recall them. We've learned a lot and we've unlearned a lot. Many of us have gotten a little older, in fact, name of us even shave now. We'll never forget these months spent here at Harvard. But isn't that the plaint...
Several sure points for the Crimson melted away when Wayne Homans pulled up at the one-mile mark with a severe spike injury which forced him back out of scoring position. However, in a personal stretch duel, he nosed out his brother, who was running for the opposition. Third and final meet of the season will come next Saturday with M.I.T...