Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disgruntled welcome, the 60 Grand Councillors of San Marino, an august senate from which the two regents are chosen twice a year. Well they might regard II Duce with suspicion, fear. Did not Caesar Borgia wrest the precious independence of the republic from it for an all-too-broad span of years? May not the republic's armed forces (1200 men, constituting the sturdy male population between 16 and 60) be called upon to sell their lives in attempting to repulse the possible aggression of the Caesar of today? Signor Mussolini and his family received a welcome both formal...
...last week all illusions were shattered when President Coolidge informed the press that wooden bridges had covers merely to protect the lower timbers from the elements which would rot them. Such bridges will frequently outlast a succession of iron bridges. The President told of a wooden covered span near Springfield, Mass., which has been standing more than a century...
...Commonly supposed to be a young team, the Philadelphia Athletics are in reality far remote from puberty. Babe Adams, 44, is the oldest player in either league and still pitches irregularly for Pittsburgh, but Jack Quinn pitches his regular turn for Philadelphia at the age of 41. The average span of big league life for a ball player is eight years. The youngest good player today is Lindstrom of the New York Giants...
...celebrates its golden anniversary, the 220 yard event will be held for the forty-ninth time. The event was held for the first time in 1877, one year after the title meet was inaugurated. It will be interesting to observe whether a span of thirty years will pass without witnessing the lowering of the "220" record. Frankly, such a development would not surprise...
...hard, for one who lived in the good old days when John, the Orangeman assuaged the undergraduate palate, to come back and find everything so changed. Not only architecturally,--there is a horrible spick-span new pile on the site of old Dane Hall with its pleasant lived buttresses, and not a trace of the moss-grown old pump remains but in the undergraduate attitude, all is bustle and commercialism, coldness, and discourtesy. I asked two young snobs with Dickey ties to direct me to the headquarters of the Graduate Day Committee. Their only reply was a shrug...