Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detest those statistician hounds who put things end to end and stretch them across the country, so don't publish this if it's going to start the pack off in full...
...becomes evident that the sister's plan is to present to the Governor evidence in her brother's behalf which he had refused to consider previously. Ultimately the Governor is convinced that the condemned brother is innocent, that another Sing Sing inmate (fortunately present, serving a stretch for forgery) is really the man who murdered the sister's betrayer, the crime which the innocent boy came within an ace of expiating. The script is abominable, the plot rather well designed...
Sick Seaboard. Early this year was consummated a re-organization of Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., whose 4,500 mi. of track stretch north and south between Richmond and Miami, west between Wilmington and Birmingham. A feature of the re-organization was that it provided the road with $20,000,000 new working capital. But business depression has cut Seaboard's net in the first nine months of 1930 to $4,527,000 against $8,479,000 in that period last year. Seaboard common has dropped from $12½ to $1, preferred from $28 to $2¼. Last week the j railroad...
...from Ogden to Omaha, longest stretch of the train's run to Chicago, it is Union Pacific...
...Nature, British scientific weekly, Dr. F. Rinne, University of Freiburg, Germany, suggested similarities between a crystal and a simple sperm cell which may be the means of drawing living and nonliving matter together. He pointed out that a chief characteristic of liquid crystals* is the so-called "straight-stretch" type of molecule which composes it. Protein molecules of sperm cells are also of the "straight stretch" type. In addition to this structural likeness, there is a likeness of optical behavior. Like crystals, sperm cells break in two the light which passes through them, bending each ray so that two points...