Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell miler Mike Midler, set a new track record for that event with a 4:16.8. Ken Wilson of the varsity led the field with a 2:05 first half, but from there Midler took the lead, but on the back-stretch, Crimson miler, Phil Williams, sprinted past Midler into the lead. He had made his move too soon, however, as Midler passed him in the stretch to win by 10 yards. Williams' time was under 4:19, the best of his career...
...trailed Winding Way Farm's Golf Ace the entire mile and a furlong distance in the $61,000 Wood Memorial Stakes at Jamaica, finished 2½ lengths back, but was awarded first place after films showed Golf Ace bore out and cut off Head Man in the stretch. After the race, Arcaro agreed to ride Head Man in the Kentucky Derby next week at Churchill Downs, where highly favored Needles and Career Boy are already working out. ¶ While World Champion Shotputter Parry O'Brien outtossed Newcomer Bill Nieder...
...skeleton, which will stretch at least fifty feet when mounted, belonged to the sea-monster Kronosaurus, a Plesiosaur of the Lower Cretaceous period...
Back in Cambridge, the varsity faces a stiff stretch in the Briggs Cage and the probability that the season opener against Syracuse (scheduled for Saturday) will be postponed...
...himself to try to shape their characters. This time there was too much stacked against him. Between the overwhelming Chinese, the character flaws of his men and his own protectiveness, the patrol ended in a disaster in which heroism and simple humanity were underscored during a brief stretch of nightmarish combat...