Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much for the others and by the second lap he had a long lead with the other contestants strung along for a distance of a hundred yards. It was expected that Morison would beat the record but he had a strong wind against him on the home stretch and no contestant was near enough to urge him. He crossed the line in the fine time of 4 minutes 38 3-5 seconds, within a second of the record, and beating his own record by two-fifths of a second. Carr of Yale came second, Walker third...
...Myers decided to run in it. Having an even start with his competitors it became only a question of how far he would leave them behind. He pushed so far ahead that he found it safe to walk the last 20 or 25 yards on the home stretch and he came in winner...
...reference to the needs of the different games. The green, running from the society building southerly toward the site of the new Law School would do much better than the present field for the lacrosse men; but, just about the centre, the cricket men have their "crease." Thus a stretch of field, for about two hundred yards, is broken by a little patch of green of about thirty feet long. Then, again, why could not the lacrosse men practice on either Jarvis or Holmes two or three times a week, and the two base-ball nines accommodate themselves...
...rising young Parisian, has one of the most striking pictures in the exhibition. A more clever combination of drawing and coloring is seldom seen. The idea, too, is pleasing: A young girl resting in most careless fashion on a bank of deep green grass, glancing seaward over a stretch of lighter green water, so natural that one longs for summer to come again that he may experience the reality. The pose of the figure is most graceful, being relieved by a light airy summer dress, dainty gloves a la Bernhardt, a cute little pair of opera glasses, listlessly held...
Toward the south, along the shore, the forest extended for miles, an unbroken stretch of beech and maple. Tue, in her few hasty glances at the surroundings of the village, had selected this as the most beautiful spot in the landscape; perhaps as much because it led to her own sunny native land as for any peculiar charm of its own. Thither she now turned her steps...