Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsequent peace treaties by European "divide-&-rule" policies. Men like Lawrence of Arabia believed, led the Arabs to believe, that with the defeat of Turkey and the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire one great homogeneous Arab nation of essentially the same race, same religion, same culture, would stretch from the southern borders of the Anatolian plateau to the fantastically shaped rocks of Aden...
...made over more than two years. Ranging it alongside a $500,000 stock profit made by some other man, he told them that the new tax law would require the $500,000 man "to pay a tax of only 15%. just as you and I would. . . . Nobody, by any stretch of the imagination, can say that this new provision maintains the principle of payment in proportion to ability...
Coming down the home stretch as the end of the baseball season approaches, Coach Fred Mitchell's Varsity nine will face tomorrow a strong Holy Cross team at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field...
...sprint champions of the East is the significance of their consistently slow stroke over the short distances. Although the Elis flashed by Cornell to cast grave doubts on the Bollesmen's mythical title, sportsmen are picking the Chace-paced eight to come into its element in the long distance stretch at New London...
...undistinguished time trial over the mile and three-quarters distance yesterday, the Jayvee eight outclassed the Varsity in form although succumbing to the latter's power. The workout was directed over a six-mile course to the Basin and back with the sprint stretch rowed upstream...