Word: spanning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their span of life is unknown, but a single white-handed gibbon has already lived over thirty years in the Philadelphia zoo. Only two gibbons have bred in zoos of Europe or America...
...been its president ever since. Unlike professional baseball, professional football is not yet governed by complicated laws. There are roughly 1,500 professional and semiprofessional teams in the U. S. But the best amateurs may graduate directly from college into the game's major league. Average span of a National League footballer's career is four years. Price of players sold from one team to another runs as high as $7,500. Average pay check is $125 a game. The National League is made up of onetime college players. So was the ill-fated American League which started...
...most important link in the chain is the preparation of food in the University kitchen. Every modern method that has been devised for cleanly handling of food has been installed. Only the highest quality of food is purchased. All the milk and cream is pasteurized. Everything is spick and span. All the dishes are thoroughly cleaned. Every employee in the kitchen is under medical inspection. He must be cleanly in his habits, and he is taught the principles of food sanitation. If ill, he must not work, but is given leave of absence with pay. Refrigeration temperatures of all food...
...bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist the mightiest earthquake ever known. If the biggest of battleships hit one of the main piers at full speed, the bridge would only quiver, the ship...
...that pale, limping, hemophilic Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, the Count of Covadonga, 29, eldest son of deposed Alfonso XIII of Spain, technical adviser and salesman with Manhattan's defunct British Motors, Ltd., had pledged part of his share of the Span ish crown jewels as security against loans of "considerable sums...