Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little dormitories that flank Holden Chapel, with, let us say, Holyoke House, and you will have some idea of the measure of the improvement. Compare the wooden stands on Holmes or Jarvis Field with the Stadium, or the Anderson Bridge with the rickety plank affair that used to span the river, and you will see how far we have gone...
...Building was also in the mind of President Thomas D. Boyd on the opening day at Louisiana State University. In his spick and span office in the University's new $5,000,000 "plant" south of Baton Rouge, he conferred with railway officials upon the building of a three-track spur to the entrance of the football arena...
...Rogers Peet Co., clothiers, have five stores in Manhattan. Although few of the many Manhattan gentlemen who cover the span between their swaddling and their graveclothes in the sailor-suitings, Norfolks, long pants and cutaways of this concern, have ever beheld, in the flesh, either Mr. Rogers or Mr. Peet, few are without their conception of the personal appearance of these able outfitters. They envision Rogers as a spindling little man, whose pathetic shanks, shrunken torso and desiccated arms, contrast oddly with the twinkling zest of his round impish face, the shrewd pucker of his mobile mouth; they picture Peet...
...Sterrett of Hutchinson, Kan. The Conclusion wavered before those pitiless putts that streaked for the hole over yards of squashy turf. Near the tenth tee grew a four-leaf clover. It was picked, pensively. Near the 18th cup lay Mrs. Sterrett's ball, only a short span to go for a birdie, a tie, an extra hole. The putt was missed. Then the Griswold trophy was presented to its winner, for keeps, since it was the third time she had won it, and the babbling battalions wended their way, murmuring: "That Glenna Collett...
...bridge may span the Charles, if the state legislature passes a bill which was reported favorably on Thursday by the committee on metropolitan affairs. An unidentified donor, graduate of the University, has offered to finance a footbridge between Plympton Street and the new School of Business Administration...