Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the present generation of Harvard men will be able to enlighten their grandchildren when the question of adherence to the World Court is again before the Senate, let it be clearly understood once and for all that by no stretch of the imagination is membership in the League itself an inevitable consequence of membership in the Court. The Court was created in accordance with Articles 13 and 14 of the League Covenant; its expenses are paid by the Secretariat; it is the official Court for the League,--but these are the only connections per so between the two bodies...
...important improvements distinguish the new Hudson. First, there is an all-steel one stretch body (including the roof) which offers greater safety and the opportunity to have the body color run without break even on to the roof. Second there is a modern version of the old electric-shifter called the "electric-hand" which allows one to shift in advance, and carries out these pre-arrangements when the proper time arrives...
...Western Ry, sent over the rails between Chicago and Minneapolis last week. Called The 400 because it covers 400 miles in 400 minutes, North Western's new train made railroad history by being the fastest train scheduled on the American Continent, fastest in all the world on a stretch over 200 mi. But what made The 400 really significant news was that it was neither lightweight nor streamlined, powered by neither a Diesel nor an electric engine. To all appearances a conventional, standard, all-steel, air-conditioned train, The 400 was hauled by a big, black, puffing steam locomotive...
...home stretch, he praised Tasmanian woodsmen for sawing through a 6 ft. 4 in. block of wood in 31 sec., beamed at Sydney's effort to outdo Melbourne's hospitality with a portrait of himself in fireworks 70 ft. high, and helped New South Walesmen round up 300 kangaroos...
...readers will wander through hopeless mazes before they find another such straightforward stretch. More typical is the "Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia": "The days are wonderful and the nights are wonderful and the life is pleasant. Bargaining is something and there is not that success. The intention is what if application has that accident results are reappearing. They did not darken. That was not an adulteration...