Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a stretch in the Navy, he got into General Education at the very bottom, as a section man in Humanities 1. Two years later, he and Dr. Howard Hugo teamed up to offer Humanities 4, the Good and Evil course. Hum. 4 drew so much praise in subsequent Confy Guides, that in three years its enrollment soared from fifty to five hundred and fifty, largest in the College. Accustomed to the give-and-take of small sections, Rhinelander found himself addressing a mass meeting three times a week. "It rather disconcerted me," he admits...
...Belmont Futurity, in the world-record-equaling time of1 min. 14 2/5 sec. for 6½ furlongs; on the Widener Course straightaway at Belmont. Odds-on choice at 1 to 3, the dark grey colt (by Polynesian, out of Geisha) brushed his opposition aside in the stretch to win his eighth straight race...
...balance for a pennant-winner. Their probable first-game starter was a relief pitcher almost the whole season, which points out the weakness of the pitching staff. The infield which until the last two weeks was destined to set a new major league fielding mark leaked openly in the stretch. And the powerful batting order is loaded with right-handers, just the meat for Yankee right-handers Raschi and Reynolds...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's unbeaten two-year-old colt Native Dancer, his sixth straight win, the 6 ½ furlong. $62,650 Hopeful Stakes, with his patented stretch spurt, to leave Greentree Stable's Tiger Skin two lengths behind; in 1 min. 18 4/5 sec.; at Saratoga...
...stock Administration excuses for the stretch-out has been that the economy is not big enough or strong enough to carry the arms load originally planned. From this handy excuse a do-nothing atmosphere has pervaded Washington; even the Pentagon is no longer making much of an effort to increase production targets...