Word: stretching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While speculation has run wild over the destiny of the Waldorf-Astoria site, the shadow of a rumor of far more significance has fallen over another stretch of multi-million-dollar Fifth Avenue frontage. Frightened words have trickled from realtor circles to newspaper sanctums, and once or twice a timid hint has been printed...
...Behn's great design thus became obvious to the most casual observer. I. T. & T. cables stretch to the west coast of South America. Here they connect with the trans-Andean cable and telephone lines. And these lines in turn connect with the domestic telephone systems of Chile, Uruguay and now, Argentina. Thus a fast message may be relayed from New York to a house in the suburbs of Montevideo without once leaving I. T. & T. wires...
...sons who were dashing Londonward. Edward of Wales reached London Tuesday night, after having made the 6,450 miles from the African jungles in nine days, twelve hours. Soon after his eldest son reached his bedside, the King was reported in a bulletin as "slightly better." For the final stretch of rails, from Brindisi, Italy, to Boulogne, France, the Italian Government supplied a special train and officials cooperated to the end that it should cross Europe at an average speed of 35 miles an hour. Though impressive to Italians, Swiss and Frenchmen these record facilities seemed ridiculous in comparison with...
...brick, with a peaceable white door and portico, stands on I Street northwest, in Washington. It is the Meeting House of the Society of Friends in the capital, and there Mr. & Mrs. Hoover attend service. Its capacity is about 200 people, and the Friends were wondering how best to stretch the walls. With or without circulars to the scientifically minded, they foresaw that crowds would throng to their door each "First Day" of the next four years, when President & First Lady attend...
...grand pageant of assumption of the Imperial Station proceeded amid ancient things and ceremonies whose very names and meanings are untranslatable. However, since the Tenno did sit upon what amounted to a chair, one may stretch a point and call the occasion his Enthronement...