Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motormakers last week had another thing to discuss. It was a new Durant line of sedans with a "Pullman attachment" as standard equipment. Owners of these new Durants will not have to get out of their cars when they wish to stretch themselves out full length. At the press of a little lever, the back of the front seat gives way, a "reclining couch" comes into being. Durant advertisements pointed out the many uses of this "roadside resting or sleeping room." It "makes traveling with children delightful," enables businessmen to "keep going as long and as far as they like...
Three months after the eligibility order was issued occurred the Paris flight of Charles Augustus Lindbergh which "through the wildest stretch of the imagination, could not be construed as 'part of the duties incident to' ... membership [in the Missouri National Guard or the Air Corps Reserve]." Public clamor demanded a D. F. C. for Lindbergh, and the Air Corps expediently recommended the award...
...Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, director of research of Eastman Kodak Co., was the first photograph ever taken showing the earth's curvature. Snapped in one-fiftieth of a second from an airplane in South America by Captain Albert W. Stevens, U. S. Army photographer, the picture shows a stretch of 300 miles of pampas beyond which rise the Andes. The distant horizon line of the pampas is curved slightly downward at one end. The picture was taken on film made sensitive to red and infra-red rays (not scattered by earth's atmosphere like the shorter wavelengths...
...Harvard, you have introduced it, though to a very limited extent, by establishing the Reading Period. At Rollins we have made it the one and only method by establishing what we call the two-hours conference system. A group of students work together for two hours at a stretch. The material is at hand. They dig into it on their own. Nobody can avoid digging in as he would avoid preparing for a recitation. There is nothing else to do. Then, when the study portion of the period is over, the students discuss what they have managed to find...
...Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, U. S. A. retired, famed West Point footballer, E. A. T.'s president. And another would have been tall, angular, pipe-smoking Frederic Gallup Coburn, president of American Airways, Inc. whose Atlanta-Los Angeles and New York-Boston-Montreal lines the E. A. T. stretch now connects...