Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French intelligence solved the problem by an announcement that a "midnight storm" had washed away a section of the one comfortable motor road connecting the French resorts with San Remo. Next day French artisans were busy repairing the stretch of road with such vigor that for long it will be impassible. Italians wrathfully and truthfully declared that there had been no storm. High play at San Remo fell, at least temporarily...
...first called them "The Great Smokies," from the smoldering haze that hangs upon them, no one knows. They stretch for 200 miles northeast and southwest paralleling the Blue Ridge (40 miles southeast). Master chain of the Appalachians, they wall off Tennessee from North Carolina. Near a place called Indian Gap, the snag-toothed divide is so sharp that a mountaineer's misstep would plunge him dizzily into one State or the other...
Lured by a blue stretch of open water in front of the Weld Boat Club between the Anderson and the Weeks Bridges yesterday afternoon, the Leviathan, the mightiest craft in the University flotilla, carried a crew of Freshman rowing aspirants onto the Charles...
...singers of the company have worked together as a group for four years, and it is the first time that a really trained chorus has worked together over so long a stretch and that such emphasis has been given to the opera as a whole, making it primarily an ensemble rather than a company of individuals. This company serves as a stepping-stone to the larger companies; for many years there has been a crying need for smaller companies, such as this trained at home rather than studying in Europe. As there are no "stars" in the American Opera Company...
Suddenly a whisper. Lights flash up, blazing upon countless gems. The Peers and Peeresses rustle as they rise and bow. Majestically the King enters. As he paces slowly forward, his crown is a mount of diadems, his train seems to stretch behind inimitably, borne by chubby pages with neat legs and little slim Court swords. His Majesty is England, rich, historic. When he speaks, his Dominions will listen, in their newness and youth...