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Word: spans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With riggers awash and coxswains pounding, the three crews flashed past Harvard bridge, bow to bow. There a careless spectator dropped an umbrella from the span. Unluckily it knocked the megaphone from the coxswain's mouth and thus completely disabled the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR CREW IN RECORD RUN ON CHARLES | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...study the secondary school would be prepared to exchange for a cut in the over-wide requirements of college entrance under the credit system. In such a document education in general, as well as college committees on admission, would possess a thumb-rule for measuring the chasm's span...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GULF BETWEEN | 3/1/1928 | See Source »

...signal to many generations of Harvard undergraduates that "Copey" is receiving his friends, will burn indefinitely and that even though retired from active service in the University. "Copey" will be "at home" to them until he has lived out the full fourscore years and ten which was the span of life of his ancestors. New York Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

Fifteen times, over a span of twenty-five years, Chef James Copper has toured the U. S., serving the palate of Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski. His has been an important post. Importantly he has filled it. He has granted interviews to pressmen when Paderewski could not be disturbed, protected him with frying pan and rolling pin from tramps who have besieged his private car. This year he turned seventy-five, was pensioned by the Pullman company, pronounced too old to serve the Great Paderewski. He himself broke the news when Paderewski arrived from Europe, begged the privilege of recommending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Thunderer | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Ferry. Spick and span in steel gray, bright brass and Sunday "whites," the Texas, her captain & crew, will be waiting for the President at Key West to ferry him in six hours to Havana. A squadron of six destroyers led by the cruiser Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Cuba | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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