Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canvas, has lived on in England while similar work in France, Austria and Germany has long gathered dust on museum and palace walls. Most popular of this type was The Founding of Australia by Algernon Talmadge (see cut). It shows Australia Explorer Capt. Arthur Phillip and his officers, spick & span in white breeches and cocked hats, drinking a toast to the Union Jack under the eucalyptus trees at Sydney Cove. Only different in theme was a painstakingly accurate view of one of Britain's great football crowds, Chelsea v. Arsenal at Stamford Bridge by Charles Cundall...
Reason for all this fuss, aside from California's surpassing exuberance, was that the bridge was the world's greatest by practically every measurement-length of span, height, difficulty of achievement. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was conceived 20 years ago by Engineer Joseph Baermann ("Colossus of Roads'') Strauss and finally completed at a cost of eleven lives...
...single-decked suspension with two piers, the bridge has a total length of 9,266 ft. The main span is 4,200 ft. long, 700 ft. more than George Washing ton Bridge's centre span. The two grace ful towers are 746 ft. high, the clearance of the six-lane roadway and two passenger walks over the water, 220 ft. More intriguing than all these statistics are the allowances for the great stresses which the bridge may meet. In case a hurricane sweeps in from the sea, it can swing 21 ft. out of line without harm. When...
Completing a span of seventeen years of valuable teaching and research at Harvard, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History has announced his resignation from the faculty. Universally recognized as one of the outstanding authorities on British history, Professor Abbott's History 42 has been one of the most valuable courses in the field. His interest and deep study of English history of the Seventeenth Century has resulted in the publication of "A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell," and "Adventures in Reputation...
...American Airways has been ready to fly the Atlantic for at least two years. But it could get permission to land in Europe only by agreeing to share the route on a reciprocal basis with Britain, which had no planes commercially able to span an ocean. In the past six months slow-moving Britain has finally acquired a fleet of Short Brothers flying boats capable of making transatlantic tests...