Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhat better light. The audience beheld the emergence of the mechanical engineer and some of his inventions. Toward the end this act took on the gala aspect of a football game as a parade of students appeared bearing banners with the names of various engineering schools. After a short stretch showing how the society was founded "Control," now almost full grown, again popped to the front of the stage, said: ". . . Engineering . . . has been one of the means . . . by which civilization has advanced...
Gold Spike. To commemorate the laying of the world's longest stretch of ''heaviest rail" (130 pounds a yard) between Chicago and New York, Pennsylvania Railroad officials last fortnight observed an ancient custom and drove a gold spike in the last link. The ceremonies took place on the Pennsylvania main line tracks at Chicago's 41st Street. Chosen to drive the spike was Foreman...
Last spring Skipper Wheeler of the river packet Casca made a strange etching on the frozen surface of Lake La Berge, Yukon. With an old broom and buckets of refuse oil mixed with lampblack he drew a line 40 ft. wide across a 29-mi. stretch of the lake's surface...
...years, and this year in the eastern races he showed so well that he seemed sure to repeat. In The Pas race last week, he was five minutes ahead at the turn at the Flin Flon Mine, 100 miles out. St. Godard's huskies weakened on the home stretch. A dog which had been lurching in the traces for a mile fell over without stumbling, its legs suddenly helpless. After looking it over St. Godard took its strap off and put it on the sled. Through the gigantic white domes of snow, alive in the wind over the wilderness...
...before another gloomy period of reckoning and questioning arrives. Mid-Years being scarcely in the past, this formidable array of examinations lends an air of faculty surveillance that is not far removed from the preparatory school. In view of the theoretical independence of collegiate education, it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to see in what way this practice is either expedient or consistent with the professed Harvard' tactics of allowing individual development...