Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...collection of its 100,000 photographs the Harvard Observatory is much better prepared than any other to pursue the past history of the heavens. Some of the best negatives of this collection, which stretch back for fifteen years, have been examined for any traces of the new star but noue as far back as 1887 have been found. Since Friday night the brilliancy has decreased if anything. Since 1887 there have been ten new stars found, eight by the Harvard Observatory and two by Dr. Anderson. In 1891, and at the present time, the stars were discernable to the taked...
...second graded crews were followed by the launch in a time-row over the regular course. The second crew was given a start of a length and a half, but the first made the course in quicker time, 9ms., 20s., the second finished in 9ms., 37s. On the home stretch a further test was made, and this time the first Newell eight did 15 strokes in 22 seconds. The order of the first crew is as follows: Stroke, Brownell; 7, Blake; 6, Bullard; 5, Henderson; 4, Perkins; 3, Swain; 2, Morris: bow, Goodell...
Equally interesting, or even more so, is the sea with its stretch of coast line. Grander views may be had in other parts of the country, but nowhere can a clearer insight be had into the history of the action constantly taking place between sea and land. A little thought will show that natural or geological causes have a great influence on the action of man himself. Why, for example, did the Pilgrims place their settlement and their college in so flat and uninteresting a spot as Cambridge? Simply because elsewhere the land was so covered with glacial stones that...
...This entrance opens direct y into the large living-room on the first floor, which is to be the principal room of the building, both architecturally and from the standpoint of the life of the club. This room will be forty feet wide by ninety feet long and will stretch up through all three floors to a roof of open timbers. There will be a high wainscot of oak around all the walls, which will be enriched by the seals and arms of the various College organizations, and at each end will be a large open fireplace with a carved...
...mile run was Harvard's easily, since all the Yale men had given up by the time the last turn was reached. Foote led into the stretch, but was passed by Richardson just before the finish...