Word: spans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...workmen hoisted a 50-ft. eyebar from a barge below, finally joined the two halves of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, linked San Francisco to the east for the first time. Simultaneously, the California Railroad Commission concluded long deliberations, decided to allow electric trains to cross the huge span...
Claiming that social security is becoming more and more necessary as the mass of unemployed increases and the number of people over 65 grows larger due to the longer span of life, three Debating Council representatives met a team from the Quinn Society over WNAC at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in a no-decision debate...
...considered a single living cell. Big, too, is a single nerve cell which runs along an elephant's spine. The structure of these monster cells is practically the same as a microscopic cell in a rabbit's liver, of which some 980 are required to span one inch...
...been thirty-three years since the first Godkin Lecture was given by the British historian, Lord Bryce. In that span many able scholars and political figures have carried on the vigorous spirit of Edwin Lawrence Godkin. These lectures are a tribute both to the man whose name they bear and to the cause of uncorrupt democracy for which he fought...
...great advances that have been made in the control of epidemic disease, the lengthening of the span of human life and the improvement in public health and well-being are closely associated with the development of engineering means for the control and improvement of the environment. The spread of intestinal diseases has been checked by water supply and sewerage works and by the sanitary production and distribution of foods; insect-borne diseases have yielded to proper engineering measures for the control of insects and their animal hosts; and it is hoped that many of the respiratory diseases will suffer marked...