Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four league games. The Big Red had been ranked as high as seventh in the nation at one point this season...After an 8-3 victory over Colgate, St. Lawrence (4-0 ECAC) is the ECAC's only other undefeated team...Harvard scored three goals in a five minute span three times in the two contests...The polite Army crowd applauded when the Crimson took the ice Friday night...The icemen are at Dartmouth the day after Thanksgiving, and then return to Cambridge the next night to host the Big Green...
Last week San Francisco and Oakland commemorated the bridge's half-century with a modest parade and reminiscences of the rise of the world's longest steel high-level span. Said John Kergel, 79, who worked on the project that took three years and 29 lives: "It was the Depression, guys would do anything for a job. We took a lot of chances. But it paid off." As for comparisons between the gray lady and her golden sister, one official said, "They're both beautiful bridges. What's important is that during the Great Depression people had the vision...
...bridge building alone. He also prefers old-fashioned ways of doing business, and has always tried to avoid lengthy contracts, performance bonds, "pre- qualification registration," and other such modern advances. On one job, when Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials demanded that a safety net be suspended below the span on which Graton and his crew were working, Graton complied, in his fashion: he balled up a net and tied it in a bundle under the bridge...
...Graton busies himself meanwhile with other projects. His route between home in Ashland, N.H., and various jobs sometimes takes him near Cornish, and he stops to see how the old bridge is holding up. On one such recent visit he studied it from a parking area that overlooks the span and is frequently used by tourists who stop to take photographs...
...confides Stewart. "First thing she has to do is stop giggling. The interview lasted about 15 minutes, but most of that was laughing. I don't think she'll be doing much more of this." That should not be a problem, since Stephanie seems afflicted with a short attention span in everything she does. Just ask Actor Rob Lowe, who apparently broke up with her earlier this month after one of the quickest romances on tabloid record...