Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Curtin, who entered the contest with a 1-1 mark, was shaken by Bruin batting for three runs off four hits in the first inning alone. He encountered no trouble over the next three innings--fanning five Bruins in that span--but departed the game in the fifth after surrendering three additional runs...
...tallying two goals in a span of 49 seconds early in the second half, the Crimson snapped a 4-4 tie to take the lead for good over the Chiefs...
...spurt included three Harvard goals in 25 seconds, two of them coming off the stick of freshman Brad Raymond in a 14-second span. Raymond finished with four tallies on the afternoon to lead all Crimson goal-scorers...
Ironically, the sense of incompletion that strikes us in this collection of essays arises primarily from accidental repetitions which we cannot help but notice. We find repeted allusions, identically worded, idees fixes sprinkled throughout essays that span many years--essays organized according to the editor's idea of "theme". The allusions tease us with the illusion of continuity, the reward for our "careful" reading. We reach towards it and find only the discontinuity of meaning...
...million MasterCards have ballooned from $11 billion to $28 billion since 1983. David Caplovitz, a sociologist at the City University of New York and author of Consumers in Trouble, estimates that between 20 million and 25 million households are financially overextended or "entangled" in debt. Says he: "Within the span of one or two generations, America has been transformed from a cash society to a credit society. People are in over their heads, and it is ruining their lives...