Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accordance with his last wish, the ashes of Herbert Wood, a $2 bettor, were scattered on the home stretch of the Saratoga racetrack...
...beginning of the test, the gaseous outpourings of Alabama's man-made inferno were drawn off at Borehole No. 2, limiting the combustion to the first 300-ft. stretch. The underground temperature went up to 900° F. Later it might go as high as 3,000° F. No immediate attempt was made to produce a useful, combustible gas: the first thing was to see how steadily the coal could be made to burn. Later, hot air, steam or oxygen could be fed into Borehole No. 1 to make a variety of gases with different chemical and thermal...
Armed with a hot tip on number 2 and unable to watch from any place but the far turn, the two saw the horses toddic by into the stretch. They heard the following jockey repartee as the beasts passed by. "Hey, where's number 2? Let him through, let him through...
...thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from the ranks, but switched to the right side of the tracks via a stretch at night law school, decides to take Derek's case...
...Minor Vices (Enterprise; MGM) is a major indiscretion employing three able stars directed by Lewis (All Quiet on the Western Front) Milestone. It is a painfully misconceived attempt to stretch out and puff up a frail piece of whimsy into a frothy comedy...