Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rate of but three miles an hour and as the stream at that point is over a mile wide, all the crews can keep to the westerly shore without any one of them being favored by the channel. At Poughkeepsie the stream does not afford a three mile stretch anywhere north of the Poughkeepsie bridge unless the crews row across the current. The river is comparatively narrow, so that the crew having the mid-channel would have great advantage...
...laps to the mile and the forty yard dash was the only event in which good time was made. In the 440 yard run and especially the mile team race, the Worcester men showed their skill in running around the corners, but the Harvard runners caught them on the stretch every time...
...chemistry. The new room will be fireproof and will have all the latest improvements. The desks are tile topped and each one will be fitted with water and with a vacuum pump. There are enough of these to accomodate 32 men comfortably, and a good many more at a stretch. Nine large hoods, heated at the top with steam radiators, are built into the north wall. The eastern end of the room is divided into three compartments, two furnace rooms and a weighing room. This laboratory will be ready for use by next autumn...
...prose in this number of the Advocate. The heroine of the tale is a chorus girl in Francis Wilson's Opera Company who is loved wisely and well by a Harvard man, who marries another girl, however, and who herself finally marries his valet. Cupid still continues to stretch "the silver cord of love" between the Harvard man and his operatic loved one, and as the correct working out of the plot demands that they should come together, the wife of the Harvard man and his valet very conveniently fall off a wharf and are drowned! While the story...
...mile walk McLaughlin, W. H. S., took the lead at the start. By the half mile mark he was thirty yards ahead of the second man, but after that Norton, Hop., began to cut down his lead inch by inch till, as they entered the home stretch, there was scarcely fifteen feet between them; but McLaughlin was too strong for him and finished first in 7 m. 36 1-5 sec., beating the old record by 20 1-5 sec. Johnson, W. A., was third...