Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meek as lambs. Fortnight ago a riot broke out in Castilblanco. Four of the Guardia Civil lost their lives, and since then they have stood no more nonsense. After Castilblanco there were a half-dozen clashes between guards and strikers throughout Spain. Twenty-four people were killed; in one stretch of 48 hours eleven citizens died, 60 were wounded. In the Cortes. Socialist deputies threatened a general strike and attacked the civil guard as terrorists. Premier Manuel Azana threw wide his arms soothingly...
Gentleman Farmer Thorne, whose ancestral acres stretch over the high-rolling hills of Dutchess County, was highly pleased. "It proves," he said, "what I have been trying to convince Eastern farmers all along. . . . They can compete with other regions in beef cattle as well as in dairy herds...
...upon a wet rock with a "rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days when Thomas Jefferson made Rip Van Winkle stretch his cramped legs upon a New York stage. And Ichabod Crane has become a fixture in America, one might even say a plumbing fixture...
Hard, pragmatic Dictator Kemal passed the petition to Angora officials who ignored it, but a rich & pious Turk bestowed on Petitioner Ali a disused house on Turkey's famed Golden Horn (a dirty stretch of water flanked by palaces and woods). Last week Mehmed Ali Bey scratched his woolly poll and complained to a U. S. correspondent: "Neither I nor my wife nor my children can find good jobs in Turkey. Sure we've got jobs, but they are no good. I even had to sell my dictionary. My sons are digging sewers. My daughters are cooks...
...days the school year was much different from the present one. Commencement came the Wednesday preceding the last week in August, and there was a four-week vacation granted after it. Then College resumed until the first week in January, when a seven week rest was allowed. The next stretch lasted until the "Thursday next preceding the last Wednesday in May, when a two and a half week vacation took place. Then there was steady work until Commencement. Exams were held in March and August...