Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international surgical congress in London, stated that he knew of no reliable cancer cure as yet. Few things are improbable in surgery, he said, but further research into the nature and cause of cancer is prerequisite. The apparent increase in cancer, he believes, is due partly to the lengthened span of life, as cancer is essentially a disease of middle...
...made one of accomplishment and worth, existing on the grounds of present achievement, rather than on deeds of past centuries. The House of Lords would become the seat of the foremost statesmen in the country. All the dead-wood of the centuries would be cleared away within the span of a single generation. But this result will be accomplished only provided that the measure is considered in absolute good faith by both parties. In the present disturbed situation, it might become, all too easily an instrument for political abuse...
...When Adam delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman" was thought of, is the most distinguished on earth...
...speak. From the splendid richness of his experience he can look over and beyond the temporary sore spots of today. His speech was colored with all the farsighted liberalism which has been the keynote of his life. In most men's careers it is possible to pick out a span of years, ten or twenty, and refer to it as "his day". President Eliot showed yesterday that "his day", as every college class has felt for the past fifty years...
...ferry and the toll are forgotten and the antique bridge is about to be replaced. Times and faces have changed; M. I. T. controls the waterfront, and it proposes to name the new structure the Technology Bridge, with an architectural central span, the gift of the Institute, as a memorial to its World War heroes. Harvard heartily approves, and cedes its name-claim with good will; in fact it would do so cheerfully if only the new span be wide enough for crews to pass under without danger in the races...