Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August. By week's end the Generalissimo had been at least half successful. The Rightists had reached the Ebro River bank along an eight-mile stretch formerly held by their enemy and the Leftist holdings had been reduced to a tiny circle around the main bridgehead at Mora de Ebro...
...hundred years ago, Charlemagne's dream was realized by Ludwig I of Bavaria, who joined the Rhine's branch, the Main, with the Danube. It was Germany's first canal of any consequence, a 107-mile stretch between Bamberg and Kelheim...
Istanbul's mosque-capped hills were ablaze with light for a three-day and three-night celebration last week. Chains of brightly colored bulbs stretched from minaret to minaret of the treasured Mosques of Ayasofia, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mohammed the Conqueror. Below, in the four-mile stretch of the Golden Horn the Turkish fleet lay at anchor, with ship searchlights playing nightly over the city...
Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
...extreme northeast corner of Kentucky, on the south bank of the Ohio, lies Greenup County-a stretch of shaggy, greenbriered hill country, twelve miles wide and 20 miles long. Among the hill people of Greenup-great hunters, fighters, Baptists and Democrats from way back- young Jesse Stuart grew up. He lived at the head of W-Hollow, fished in Little Sandy, began to write poetry before he was out of school. "Them Stuart youngins is plum fools." said Neighbor John Hackless. "If them was youngins of mine, I'd whip their tails with a hickory...