Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonderland of broad spaces and fertile fields. There melons grow to thirty or forty pounds. It is a land of opportunity. All the land to be opened to settlers is fertile land, capable of producing rice and with large trees whose girth would take three men to span...
With boyish dignity and innocence Le Colonel decides to span the Atlantic, uniting citizens of France and the U. S. by a common bond of heroism, and thus powerfully inducing the U. S. father to let his daughter marry the Frenchman...
...greatest amount spent for blue between 1923 and 1928, the included in the survey, was in when $2164.29 was paid out. sum and the sum denoting the for blue books over a span of years, was expended for the examination books used only by undergraduate. A few of the blue books were for clerical work in the dean's though the greatest majority consumed in the hour examinations, mid-years, finals, and General Examinations. If all the pages of these blue-books could be fitted into a large area this square would approximate a square mile. The lines of writing...
...years from 1885 to 1892, there were three bull markets in rapid succession. . . . That period resembles the 8-year span from 1921 up through this present year...
...Life Span. In 1840 a person aged 50 might have expected to live to be 70. In spite of decreased infant mortality, public hygiene and medical skill, a person now 50 can expect to live only until he is 71. (Louis Israel Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician...