Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving his farm to the bank. Two great railroads in the East were reported close to receivership. In a decade Federal bankruptcies had jumped from 23,000 to 65,000 per year, with a rise in creditor losses from $144,000,000 to $911,000,000. By no stretch of ordinary economics could a 70? dollar in goods or service pay off a dollar debt...
...Shaw looks bright but not commanding. Robert Graves describes him: "He has a trick of holding his hands loosely folded below his breast, the elbows to his sides, and carries his head a little tilted, the eyes on the ground. He can sit or stand for hours at a stretch without moving a muscle. He talks in short sentences, deliberately and quietly without accenting his words strongly. He grins a lot and laughs seldom. He is a dead shot with a pistol and a good rifle-shot. His greatest natural gift is being able to switch off the current...
Thus, by no stretch of the imagination, can German voters be said to have approved the dictatorship of a Cabinet which rules Germany under decrees signed by President Paul von Hindenburg...
...Graf in precise, unimaginative terms. But Van Orman's gaunt face brightened, his eyes shone as he exclaimed: "Never have I had such a thrill as when I went aboard that ship! After being knocked about by thunderstorms in the most primitive craft that flies-then to stretch my legs under a table in the Graf's saloon and have a steward hand me a wine list about this long-the contrast left me speechless!" To the "Early Birds," as the pre-War airmen formally call themselves, Lieut. Settle brought news of one of their own. Just before...
...World War ended Hohenzollern dreams of an all-German Berlin-to-Bagdad Railway. But today one can go by rail to Bagdad from Berlin (or Paris) with only two breaks, the ferryboat ride across Turkey's Bosphorus and the bus ride over a 125-mi. stretch of uncompleted Irak railway...