Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Movements are already afoot it is understood to make another attempt for state or federal and by putting through the legislature a bill providing for financing and erection of the bridge and the accompanying plan of moving the Charles river to facilitate the construction of the span and easo traffic conditions...
...Roger T. Twitchell '16, headmaster of Browne and Nichols school, whose boat house and playing grounds adjoin the land where the Cambridge and of the span will rest, said yesterday: "The suggested building of a bridge at this point will make access to the school easier and will open out the large marsh area below the cemetery to proper policing. To this part of the plan I have no objection whatsoever, but the shifting of the river bed, I consider somewhat extravagant...
...year-old prodigy from Sacramento, Calif., who had just returned from three years in Europe. And when she had flipped up her dress, wriggled up on the stool and stretched down for the pedals, the audience knew that it had not been fooled at all. Her hands could barely span an octave but they sounded chords which were rich and strong. Beethoven's Pathétique needed more sweep than she could give it. Once in the Bach her right hand was not quite sure what her left hand was doing. But in the Mendelssohn and Chopin her fingers...
Compared to the burden the moss-encrusted universities of the Old World have to bear, three hundred years is but as a day; but in a civilization that has lustily risen--and, say some, is already declining--in just that span, Old Harvard has a right to indulge itself in habits that have grown up with the years, habits that have become traditions, habits that, perhaps, have lost all trace of their original reason. More than any other college in America, that aged seat of learning is justified in stroking its long grey beard, settling back in its easy chair...
...bridge across the stream from Gerry's Landing, but that, ah, that was too hard. The bridgebuilders had hydrophobia, a condition unusual in bridgebuilders, and calling for unusual measures. Eureka, they would build the bridge on dry land! Did one but object that such a bridge would not span the river, the masters of the scheme should shake their heads wisely and murmur, "Mahomet!" So the river will be brought to the bridge...