Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baton to F. E. Cummings '30 one minute, 57 and 4-5 seconds after he had started. Cummings held the Harvard lead throughout his run, and relinquished the baton to W. C. Peet '28, five yards in front of his nearest contender, Wardwell of Bates. In the home-stretch of his leg, Peet gave up the pace-making to the Lewiston contingent as Adams slipped past him to hand his captain, Wakely, a seven-yard advant- age over the Harvard anchor man, Porter. In the final rush for the tape, Wakely opened a considerable yardage to cross the finish line...
...Crimson combinations rowed a steady 30-stroke beat most of the distance, with L. D. Parker '30 keeping the Ineligibles to an even 28 strokes to the minute. The weather conditions, even on the up-river stretch between the Arsenal Bridge and Gerry's Landing, were of a sort yesterday to afford a gruelling test for the oarsmen...
After having triumphantly survived several grave crises scattered throughout its distinguished lifetime Beck Hall has finally passed into the ruthless hands of cold blooded business men. Not to preserve its historic association, not to aid the University in providing convenient lodgings for its students, but merely to stretch as best they may their own pocket books, have the latest purchasers of Beck Hall sought its ownership. If financial expediency so dictates they may even compass its total demolition...
There was land, an island. And on it, or between it and another island, was a stretch of level ice, perhaps over a lake. With practically no fuel left, they were obliged to try a landing...
...eight lengths ahead of the field, who took Valentine's Brook like an eagle soaring but fell at the next fence. Nobody in the stands could see now who was leading. They waited in silence, listening to the hoofs. Then the horses came into the head of the stretch and the people could see three horses rising to the last jump. The horse in the middle, which had no rider, interfered with the one on the inside and made him stumble. The jockey fell off, got on again, and rode after the other horse which, staggering and covered with...