Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however although the total of the three remained essentially the same Bio Chemical Sciences made an even more definite increase, 40 men; Biology dropped but three; and Chemistry decreased again having 105 men. The percentages of the total of all three groups remained practically constant during the three year stretch...
Regarding Stock Market Conditions, it takes no stretch of imagination to realize that this Country has been Luncheonized, Propagandized, Silentized, Lobbyized, Mergerized, Brokerized, Bankerized, Barristerized, Brisbaneized, Bubble-ized, Powerized and also Mellonized by the "Greatest Secretary since Hamilton...
Wertz and Franz of Ohio Wesleyan, with a good line giving them time to get away, kept the Army's second stringers grunting on the Army goal-line for two periods. Cagle and Murrell had to stretch themselves when they got in. Army's 19 to 6 was really closer...
...floor. Healthy, temperate mechanics- spliced the broken wires to restore the intercourse of the hemispheres. Every half minute an earthquake occurs somewhere on earth. Great ones powerful enough to destroy towns happen about four times a year. Two especially sensitive zones exist: i) along the almost continuous stretch of the Alps, Caucasus and Himalaya mountains; 2) along the whole mountainous circle of the Pacific. Often shaken Italy is in the first zone, California and Japan in the second. Eastern North America, along the Appalachian chain goes through a noticeable, but usually harmless quake at least once a year...
...mixed emotions. If he has been regular in the performance of his duty in attendance at lectures, if those lectures have shown with their usual degree of luster, he has exhausted the store of his accomplishments. The full blossomed lot of pleasure has not been his during this last stretch of Saturdays. His coup detat, the carefully laid scheme to fly to Michigan, having been uncovered by the Yellow Press, he can reckon little for the credit side of his ledger...