Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position. Then, too, there are endless shots of hands to bring out the contrast between those of the nobility and those of the workers. The face of a clock is shown so often that the sight of it becomes more harrowing to the spectator than to the victim whose span of life it is clicking...
...most perilous sports known is that of picking writers who will survive the memories of their own brief generation. There is one writer alive today, however, in whose case the game loses all its uncertainty and danger. Were it only for the remarkable span of his literary life, Thomas Hardy will be a landmark. The Victorian ago, the decadence of the nineties, the war and its subsequent unsettled period have passed by Thomas Hardy and his most recent book, published a few months ago, has enough recent writing in it to prove his imperturbability. Professor Lowes will spend an hour...
...just about a year since Harvard men heard with regret that Dean Briggs had resigned. Now they learn that Professor Albert Bushnell Hart has announced his withdrawal from active teaching. Within the span of twelve months the University has lost two of its foremost standard bearers...
...Dazed and breathless, I have been bruised and shocked, knocked down and run over by this fact, by that revelation, or by some astounding truth which I had not previously encountered in my brief span of years. Still I offered no opposition; in most cases, I merely picked myself up, brushed the dust from my coat, and set but to find new adventures, hopeful, unquestioning, perhaps the least bit daring...
...butterfly grows into a larva, and the larva converts itself into a pupa all bound up in its chrysalis, and finally the bright winged imago emerges. But the egg is separated from the imago by no wider span or stranger transmutations than there are between a tax bill in its first hearings before the Ways and Means Committee and a tax law duly enacted by Congress and signed by the President...