Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triple by F. E. Nugent '29. In the third inning, singles by B. H. Bassett '31, E. H. McGrath '31 and E. R. Todd '29 combined with an error and two bases on balls gave Team A four runs and practically cinched the game. Over this three inning stretch P. M. Sidel '31, Team A pitcher, allowed only two hits and struck out five while holding Team B scoreless. In the fourth and fifth innings, however Team B. largely because of long hits by H. L. Huxtable '30 and J. J. Carver '30 scored two runs in each inning...
...crews until now have been staging short races, each lasting about two minutes, among themselves. There is a possibility, however, that there will be a longer race today on a straight stretch up the river...
...yesterday from the Weld Boathouse and managed to clear the ice away from the piers of the landing stage and also to open a passage into the free part of the river. With the possibility of a further warm period today, there may be by this afternoon an open stretch extending from the Anderson to at least the Western Avenue Bridge...
...Empire. Oldest railroad Empire (founded in 1827) is the Baltimore & Ohio, with Daniel Willard its Emperor and Baltimore its capital. The B. & O. runs west from Baltimore to Cumberland, then stretches a long northern arm off to Chicago and a long southern arm off to St. Louis. It has also short but vital trackage between Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Through West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio, the B. & O. map shows many little criss-cross branches. West of Cincinnati and Toledo, however, its main lines stretch out in lonely isolation and in the critical region between Philadelphia and New York...
...claimed for the U. S. unknown land in the Pacific Quadrant* of the continent, between his base on Ross Sea and Sir George Hubert Wilkins' base on Weddell Sea. The region is south of the long-known Alexandra Mountains and the Byrd-discovered Rockefeller mountains, a great stretch of rumpled iciness...