Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the ward was empty. Hospital officials had opened a spick & span one in a new building on the quadrangle.* They hunted a key to fasten the doors. There was no key. The doors during 58 years had never been locked...
...Debating Union, an organization for the stimulation of the forensic art among all members of the University, opened its third season last night under the auspices of the Harvard Union. Its short span of life has been a stormy one of decided ups and downs. On occasions it has reached high peaks of success, on others it has plumbed the depths of undergraduate neglect. Its sponsors and members have gone sturdily forward in the face of the most discouraging sort of apathy, and in spite of repeated disappointments have kept the idea alive. Such is the early history of many...
...three longest suspension bridges existing at present are: 1) the bridge at Philadelphia reaching across the Delaware, with a span of 1,750 ft.; 2) the Peekskill (Bear Mountain) bridge over the Hudson-1,632 ft.; 3) the Williamsburg bridge over the East River-1,600 ft. The new bridge is to be 3,192 ft.-twice the length of the Brooklyn Bridge...
...Varese, Italian air port, famed airman Major di Bernardi taxied out on the flying field in a huge, spick-and-span, new plane. A man-child of 11 climbed nervously into the passenger's cockpit, was securely strapped...
...other death came when one Tony Pitilalia and his son were caught as a span of the Texas & Pacific bridge connecting Melville with the east bank of the Atchafalaya was washed away. The boy was rescued but Mr. Pitilalia was carried off, drowned...