Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that time he was neither particularly "Slim" nor conspicuously "Lucky," and by no stretch of the imagination was he either a "Lone Eagle" or "Flying Fool." He might have been called "Lindy" but possibly that was insufficiently picturesque. At any rate, when somebody corrupted his name into "Limburger" it appealed to the schoolboy sense of humor and was soon abbreviated into "Cheese," which stuck as long as he remained at Friends...
Outboard Motorboats last week lined up in Boston to race down the stretch of open water to the Cape Cod Canal, through the canal, Fisher's Island and Long Island Sounds to Flushing, N. Y. Along the coast four destroyers and 40 Coast Guard boats were stationed to mark the course, help the disabled. Seventy boats jockeyed around the starting line until a cannon boomed...
...Freshman and Combination outfits also practiced in the afternoon rowing down over the two mile stretch again. The trip, however, was made in stretches, and Coach H. H. Haines had his oarsmen keep the stroke low except for a number of trial racing starts...
Some people think of the Preakness as a preliminary to the Kentucky Derby but not the people who last week stood jammed along the fences of the Pimlico track in Maryland while two horses moved round the turn into the stretch, with the little jockeys hunched forward and moving their legs like frogs swimming-Ambrose on Edward Beale. McLean's Toro, Workman on Harry Payne Whitney's Victorian. Noses together, so close the jockeys could have whispered to each other, the humping horses moved toward the wire; nobody could tell which had won the $61,000 stake until...
Realizing that incidents so authentic are not numerously remembered, Mrs. Lowrie does not try to stretch the charm of her simple record beyond 164 small pages...