Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months have been good ones largely because U-boats cannot operate efficiently in midwinter seas, and spring is apt to make Allied ships and hearts sink fast. The past few months have also seen vast extensions of Allied military lines, and campaigns of spring and summer are apt to stretch them farther yet. New construction is not outstripping new sinkings by a great enough margin to carry accumulating stocks of war and meet all the new demands. Result: much potential U.S. striking power may be immobilized on U.S. docks...
...impact, dies broke or spread, forgings cracked. If both the die and the forging stood up, they could expect to run off only about ten gears before the die was worn out. Then they thought of burying the die in solid steel so that it could not stretch, of doing the job in five successive squeezes instead of a single bump...
...plans was the man who had Secretary Knox on the edge of his chair-Chief of Staff Osami Nagano. He must orient his plans, whatever they may be, to the situation in which Japan now finds herself. It is an excellent defensive position. To the east there is a stretch of Pacific across which the U.S. would hesitate to send an all-out amphibian invasion, knowing what carrier and land-based forces were able to do to such an invasion when the Japs tried to take Midway. To the north there is a temporary security which rests on the virtual...
...really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Was it Francis Bacon? Or a couple of other fellows? Or was it, by some stretch of the imagination, after all, Shakespeare himself? This never-quite-laid ghost has haunted the battlements of English literature for 100 years. In many corners of the world, scholarly and unscholarly fanatics have spent the best part of their lives trying to prove that the son of a simple Stratford-on-Avon townsman was literature's greatest bluff...
Marden docked in San Francisco twelve days and eleven hours from the time of embarkation, with his twenty dollars still intact. After a cursory study of highway maps, which consisted mainly in picking out a broad red band that seemed to stretch from San Francisco to Boston, he again shouldred his pack and hit the road. Eight days later, dead-tired, broke, but happy, the New Zealander triumphantly entered the suburbs of Boston...