Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant Wade was a member of the expedition from its start last summer to its finish when the planes arrived at Washington in September. He was extremely fortunate in the matter of accidents until the fateful last lap of the trip, when the Army flier attempted to span the Atlantic by the way of Iceland and Greenland...
...Lake Superior, include much of Wisconsin and Michigan on both sides of their joint border, skim over the northern third of Lake Michigan and the northern portion of Southern Michigan, glide over the lower half of Lake Huron, sweep across Ontario, picking up Toronto at its northern edge, span the approaching tips of Lakes Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York, blanket nearly all of Connecticut and much of Rhode Island and go out to sea about 9:15 with Manhattan at its southern border. New Haven at its centre and New Bedford...
Said The New York Times: "His was a life richly colored and abundantly lived. Never again, in all likelihood, can a single mortal span cover so much that is vital and picturesque...
...comes a Super Seaplane for the U. S. Navy. A gigantic flying boat is to be used for long-distance scouting in the Pacific. Appropriately enough, it has been ordered from the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle, Wash. Fully loaded, the seaplane weighs 24,000 Ib. It has a span of wing of 87 ft. 6 in., a chord or width of 14 ft., a total area in its biplane wings of 2,400 sq. ft. The sturdy 60-ft. hull, built of the wonderfully light and strong duralumin, is lighter and less liable to soakage than the wooden-hull...
...will be only a temporary milestone. In 1926, a bridge will be completed across the Delaware from Philadelphia to Camden, whose main span is to be 120 ft. longer. Sic transit gloria longitudinis...