Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mile run, 5 entries-Won by J. Boardman, Jr., '94, scratch; time, 4 min., 47 sec. Second, R. R. Hollister '97, 10 yds. Boardman did not make up his handicaps till the end of the last lap. Hollister, who was pressing him hard, suddenly gave out on the final stretch, but spurted just in time to get second...
Professor Drummond closed his sermon with a personal appeal to the students of the university. He asked them earnestly to save their lives, their college days; to yield to the generous side of their natures and stretch out their hands to help the man who is down. To do this will need but little profession of Christianity, for it will be making a great practice of it. There is little or no reason why nine-tenths of us should be alive; but the man who does good in the world, lifting up care and lightening the burdens of others...
Capt. Ives coxswained and coached and rowed the men out in the harbor two miles at a stretch, taking them out on the four-mile course to the three-mile buoy.. The crew rowed as follows: Bow, Johnson; No. 2, Messler; No. 3, Van Huyck; No. 4, Paine: No. 5. Goetchins; No; 6; Rogers; No. 7. Beard; stroke, Gallaudet...
...formed a friendship which lasted almost throughout their lives. After leaving college, Steele went into the army, against the earnest entreaties of his friends, and there acquired a knowledge of the lives and characters of men which served him well in his later work. He married a widow named Stretch, who soon died, giving him thus the opportunity of marrying again, in 1707. The letters which he wrote to his second wife form the most interesting account we have of him. They were written at all times, when at his business, when drunk, when penitent or when in the lockup...
There were only two entries in the two mile bicycle race which was a regular loaf. J. C, Hunt led into the stretch, but was passed by J. W. Eddy who won by a foot...