Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is nothing more detrimental to the understanding of modern science than fuzzy definitions. Miss Doherty says that one treatment for cancer is the use of "radioactive isotopes from the heart of the smashed atom." Now radioactive isotopes have something to do with atomic energy, but by no stretch of the imagination do they reside in the hearts of atoms nor are they released in the process of nuclear fission. There are several other bad errors...
After returning from a weekend which completely changed the complexion of its record, the varsity squash team will try to stretch its string of consecutive wins to five today when it plays single matches with the Agawam Hunt Club...
...clergy of the crowded 4,763-square-mile diocese soon learned that they would have to toe a straight ecclesiastical line. Firmly championing the sanctity of marriage as defined in the canons of the Episcopal Church, he kept a tight rein on ministers who might be tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough...
Squeezed into the program somewhere, the Elis' famous Whiffenpoofs will also stretch their vocal cords...
Valpey was still undecided as to his starting eleven after the practice. He listed a tentative offensive group, however: Bob DiBlasio and Stretch Mazzone, ends; Doug Bradlee and Chief Bender tackles; Howie Houston and Will Davis, guards; Paul O'Brien, center; Bill Henry, quarterback; John West, fullback; Roche, tailback; Hal Mefile wingback...