Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the sweeping span across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, on the south, to the Frenchtown, N. J. bridge on the north, grey-clad Pennsylvania State troopers were drawn up against a line of blue-clad New Jersey troopers last week. On Oct. 15 a Pennsylvania law had gone into effect requiring Pennsylvania licenses on all commercial buses and trucks owned outside and operating inside the State. New Jersey retaliated by closing its borders to all Pennsylvania trucks and buses, whether operated for hire or privately used. While Governor Gifford Pinchot was maintaining in Harrisburg that "Pennsylvania...
...second. In one second he can scan a dozen two-digit numbers and call out the total. He can glance at a twelve-digit number, as 122,432,523,591, and repeat it 24 hours later. He attributes his speed and accuracy to "swift perception, long memory span, fluent associations, concentration, imagery." The number 9,836, for example, means to him 90 squared, plus 40 squared, plus 10 squared, plus six squared. He remembers 543 because 1543 is the date of Copernicus' death...
...since his speech of acceptance in August, Herbert Hoover stepped briefly outside his role of President of the U. S. last week to become a Republican nominee actively seeking reelection. In Washington with Mrs. Hoover and his usual retinue he boarded a Pennsylvania R. R. special train, all spick & span with new paint. It looked like rain. Two raincoats were put aboard his private car for rear platform appearances. Ahead of the special ran a pilot locomotive over rails carefully inspected a few hours before, over switches spiked down hard. In his car Candidate Hoover touched up his first full...
...spick & span riding habits George R. Hutchinson and his flying family arrived back in Manhattan last week, ready to cash in on their incompleted seaplane flight to Europe. Amazed at the lashing he had received from the Press for taking along his two young daughters, Pilot Hutchinson argued: "I did not subject my family to any more hazards than if they were traveling in an automobile. . . . The people who are criticizing me now are the same ones who boast of their ancestors who came over on the Mayflower, bringing their children with them. Don't you suppose that...
...Departments . . . on the Back Page of the Cover," the uninitiated is led to expect Prussian organization, Dutch neatness on its pages. But the booklet, like many others things of New England, is deceptive in its simplicity; it may be likened to a New Hampshire barn, prim, spick and span to the eye, but filled with a maze, a jungle, of mingled odds and ends, in which the stranger can find what he wants only by explorative rummaging...