Word: spanning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helmet on his head, strapped it firmly under his chin. Unbuttoning his topcoat he fingered a steel-ribbed corset beneath his bathing suit, adjusted the pads on his shoulders, chest and knees. "Here's the place," said the driver, stopping the truck close to the guardrail on the span about two thirds the distance to Yerba Buena Island. "We're three minutes late." In an auto on the ramp over their heads, a cameraman for the San Francisco Examiner (morning Hearst-paper) was checking his shutter adjustment, squinting at the cloud-scudded sky, gazing with concern...
...Bible states that Goliath was six cubits and a span in height. Josephus says he was four cubits and a span in height...
...cubit is the distance from a man's elbow to the tip of his ringers and a span is the span of the hand or approximately one half of a cubit. These units of measurement are of course variable as the size of the person doing the measuring...
...twelve other men were working up underneath the completed centre span of the new San Francisco-Marin County bridge.* Like wrinkled grey granite, 220 ft. below them ran the swift tidal currents of the Golden Gate. Most of the men were standing on a heavy wooden platform, slung below the rail-girders on steel beams. They were yanking away the boards from beneath the hardened concrete floor of the 4,200-ft. span. Two men were below them picking fallen boards out of the stout hempen safety net that stretched the whole length of the span...
...four inquiries began, work was indefinitely suspended under the centre span pending restoration of the safety net, more than half of which was torn away in the crash. Costing $82,000, it had saved eleven workers up to last week. Prior to last week only one life had been lost building this bridge. The San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, built without a net, cost 24 lives...