Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the past century, there is no means by which the present standard of living can be maintained, except by importation of foodstuffs from other lands,--which will need their foodstuffs even more than we. And looking forward 200 or 300 years, which is a shorter span of time than that elapsed since the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth, it seems necessary to recognize not only a stationary population in this country, but also throughout the world. Whether this stationary state will be one of misery for the majority of the people, is in China and India...
...lecture on "Anglo-American Relations, 1853-60." Anglo-American relations, whether they be studied in the popular form of the Page letters or from history textbooks, are interesting for the way they are woven and entwined into the history of the world. Even the study of the comparatively brief span between 1853 and 1860 should prove worthwhile...
...literature, as the former of the modern short story, and as the first father of that modern second cousin of legitimate fiction, the detective story, is of superlative importance as a literary figure, besides having lived a life that burned itself out with its own intensity in a brief span of years...
Someone, in the long ago, said "Time is Eternal." I sincerely hope your publication will at least outlive my span of life...
This gypsum gink or hillside hoopus?whatever its name might be?had soft black fur girdled with white, and white cuffs above its paws. Its front paws resembled human hands, Mr Miller said, except that the hairy black fingers reminded him of a tarantula. He could span the animal's neck with his thumb and forefinger, though it stood 30 inches high and weighed 20 pounds. The hind paws were sharply clawed, for climbing and scratching. A sharp-pointed face peered out from a fringe of mustache, like a monkey's. The nose was hard, smooth, rubbery. With its sharp...