Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem of law enforcement. Long has the Chief Justice been troubled by the decline of criminal justice. Having set his own high court at the Capitol in spick-and-span order, he was ready to make suggestions to the President for judicial improvements else where...
...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
They had called a priest, weeks ago, and the Generalissimo lived on. The Associated Press had reported "authoritatively" that he could live "one week or ten days at most," but already old Campaigner Ferdinand Foch had doubled that span. What matter if Death took him at the next clock-tick? Already he had fooled them all, and a man may call a joke a joke and die with all decorum and honor when...
...Maguelonne; A. Charles Schwartz, whose Darracq will run; Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, William H. Neilson Voss, Alfred 0. Corbin, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Joseph J. Larkin, Robert H. McCormick. Late betting quotations last week gave the following odds against favorite horses: Billy Barton-14-1; Grakle-14-1; Great Span-14-1; Master Billie-14-1; Maguelonne-18-1; Easter Hero-20-1; Carfax-25-1; Duke of Florence...
Highway traffic, like many another thing, follows the cheapest route. Operators of the New Orleans-Pontchartrain toll bridge have made this unhappy discovery. The great span was born under politics, and politics in the form of free state ferries across the lake, caused its financial demise. This month, after a year's profitless operation, it went quietly into bankruptcy, unable to meet interest charges on its $5,500,000 construction cost...