Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During a span of 30 years, from 1894 to 1924, more than 40 of the musical comedies produced on Broadway bore the name of Victor Herbert. Fashions changed from broughams and leg-of-mutton sleeves to Stanley Steamers and hobble skirts, but the Herbert tunes endured. Radio took them up, made him the composer most played on the air. Last week his estate again proved itself to be a gold mine of melody. In Manhattan his daughter Ella Herbert Bartlett let it be known that she had sold Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the cinema rights to three of his operettas...
...obstetrics mostly by watching Nature take its course with pregnant women. To them childbirth is a welcome commonplace which provides income of $50 to $150 per case. To the average U. S. family it is an economic and emotional problem which occurs two or three times in a life span. To every nubile woman it still evokes the Lord's words to sinful Eve: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow thou shall bring forth children...
...less difficulty finding patient dogs. Since 1929 the school has trained and distributed 200 German shepherds, reports that only 5% of the dogs brought to the farm turn out to be uneducable. The shepherds begin their training as soon as they are full-grown, are useful through a life span of ten years. Most breeders believe that bitches are steadier and more intelligent than dogs. The "Seeing Eye" has not found males markedly inferior to females, uses about three bitches to two dogs. "Seeing Eye" dogs do not, as many people suppose, memorize the blind man's route...
Wolf-fed Romulus was supposed to have founded Rome 2,689 years ago by plowing a furrow round the seven hills with a span of oxen. Repeating the same gesture, Benito Mussolini in full-dress uniform strode across a vast field to where a brand new tractor plow was standing near a crowd of spectators. First came a speech with clenched fists, outthrust jaw, harsh voice, sweating brow...
Also nearing completion is San Francisco's other great span, the Golden Gate Bridge which will link San Francisco to the north, cross the famed harbor entrance in one 6,450-ft. leap. Hung on two 746-ft. towers, 4.200 ft. apart, it will be the largest suspension bridge in the world when opened about March 1937, will have but a six-lane automobile deck with two pedestrian walks. Its cost, financed by local bond issues...