Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived the greater portion of their lives have sat quietly by and looked on, amused perhaps. For them living for the sake of living has lost its value and only because of loyalties to some ideals do they push on towards a goal and wait patiently for their short span of life...
...talking, playing the phonograph, acting as if a party were still in progress. Downstairs used plates and half-filled glasses were scattered about as if a formal supper had just ended. Some little cakes and a few glasses of wine were packed with enough potassium cyanide to fell a span of oxen. Rasputin wolfed these whole...
...Manhattan and smoky Queens lies a thin strip of grey land with grey buildings in the middle of the sludgy grey waters of the East River. It used to be called Blackwell's Island. In 1921 its name was changed to Welfare Island. Motorists crossing the Queensboro Bridge span it in daily thousands. Wealthy socialites in their riverfront apartments pay big money to look at it. But Welfare Island is not a nice place to visit and nobody would want to live there. It is the site of the New York County Penitentiary...
Paderewski was no piano prodigy. His hands were small, his fingers stubby. When he started taking lessons he could hardly span an octave, preferred to romp with his sister Antonina who at 75 still keeps house for him in Switzerland. As a 12-year-old he went to the Conservatory in Warsaw and there a dozen moppets matched him in all save patience and determination...
...using an existing type of engine (e. g. a 2,300-h. p. Rolls-Royce) would fly 544 m. p. h., or 72% as fast as the speed of sound. Such a ship would have a tubular fuselage 40 in. in diameter, a single tapered wing of 29 ft. span. Its surface would be perfectly smooth, its engine enclosed, cooled by skintype radiators. The pilot would see either through transparent panels in the fuselage, or indirectly by mirrors...