Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which link Paris and Berlin with Athens, Istanbul and Bucharest across a middle zone comprising Vienna, Venice, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia. Of these interconnecting Grands Express the most typical is the Simplon Orient Express on which it costs $171 First Class and $121 Second (there is no third) to span the 1.886 miles between Paris and Istanbul in 2½ days. Including all stops and fooling around at eight frontiers, the Simplon Orient nonetheless averages 30 m.p.h...
...strictest sense. But there is something in the fact that yearly the Harvard Club invites Copey to New York to give a Christmas reading; there is something in Copey's annual intimidation of a thousand freshmen--in the position Copey carved out for himself over a long span of years, is some thing which should give the present administration pause. Men such as Charles Townsend Copeland, Bliss Perry and LeBaron Russell Briggs cannot be selected on any single standard. No rigid standard could be devised to comprehend such outstanding individuals. Copey embodies, as do few other men, all the intangible...
...important factor cannot be neglected. If athletic receipts increase during the next few years so that thousands of dollars, compounding interest, are apparently lying idle, the plan must not be compromised. Retrenchment must continue so that the span of time may be shortened during which Harvard has to listen to the demanding voice of the great god Gold...
...than in Alaska, where dogsleds and river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4½ days...
...enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone out that the elderly gentlemen, members of the Armor & Arms Club of New York, were about to forge a 16th Century rapier with all the ancient rites and traditions...