Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week African blacks leaped up & down with excitement, British traders cheered and Scottish missionaries beamed broadly as a train tooted its whistle and chugged across the world's longest railroad bridge. Thus was railroad service inaugurated over the broad Zambesi River on a 33-span viaduct measuring more than two miles in length. The structure had taken two and a half years to build, had cost the Central African & Trans-Zambesi Railway Companies...
This system of natural contraception is based on research by Professor Kyusaku Ogino of Niigata, Japan and Professor Hermann Knaus of Graz, Austria. They observed that a woman is fertile only seven or eight days of her month and will rarely conceive outside that span. Professors Ogino and Knaus say, although not all investigators agree with them, that the fertile week always ends twelve days before menstruation begins. To love morally, canonically and practically a Catholic couple need practice continence only during the fertile week...
Died. "Old Lady," 28, Toronto Zoo's vegetarian baboon; in her sleep; in Toronto. Her keeper, Bill Ford, thought the addition to her diet of carrots, tomatoes and greens accounted for her living twice the normal life span of baboons. She had four children, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. Said Keeper Ford: "She was the finest mother I ever knew. Humans could benefit by watching her. She did not allow her children to slap their children. When she saw that done, she hit her own children and took the grandchildren away. But when the child deserved punishment, she administered...
...super-nova every thousand years. The average nebula contains a billion stars. If one star committed suicide in the super-nova manner every thousand years, the nebula would be exhausted in one trillion years?which happens to be the figure commonly set by astrophysicists as the minimum life span of stars. Thus Drs. Baade & Zwicky hold it not unlikely that soon or late every star is destined to burst forth as a supernova. If they are right the old concept of the end of the world?life freezing to death under a cooling sun? must give way to the prospect...
...neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span. . . . Last week in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Captain Reginald Houldsworth was married to Margaret May Laurie, Annie Laurie's great-great-great-great-great-great niece. The bride was given away by her uncle, Sir Wilfrid Laurie, who lives in Maxwelton House where Annie was born...