Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primarily "just history," The Old-Time Saloon is written with serious humor, earmarked here & there as Ade-made. With a crocodile tear in his eye, Author Ade describes an oldtime Kentucky belle: "You could span her waist with your two hands but she couldn't sit down in a tub." He recounts the feat of Tom Heath, who was ejected from an Irish saloon on St. Patrick's Day "because he ate the shamrocks on the bar, thinking they were watercress...
...Brazilian authorities, who had arrested him for flying "out of bounds'' (TIME. Nov. 30), Hinkler was out over the South Atlantic in his little 90-h. p. Puss Moth, alone as Lindbergh. Behind him lay the port of Natal; ahead of him a 1,600-mi. span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew 22 hr., sat down at the little colony of Bathhurst, British Gambia, with an hour's fuel in his tanks. He refuelled, flew on to Dakar. Why he undertook the hazardous flight...
...when Mr. Pollock sat down to write "The House Beautiful", skilled technician as he is, he fatally ignored all the conventions of the play writer's craft which make for "good theatre." It is difficult enough to sympathize with a character in a play when a span of thirty years is treated within less than three hours, and this difficulty is amplified when the characters are less human beings than they are mouthpieces for the most obvious sort of preaching...
...long ribbons tied by a bow marked the centre of the span and the boundary of two sovereign States. Governor Roosevelt grasped one end of the bow, Governor Larson the other. The ribbons parted. A police lieutenant fell on his face, in a heart attack. A patrolman fainted. Two schoolboys roller-skated across the bridge from the Manhattan side, the first passengers from New York. A New Jersey woman pushed her baby carriage to Manhattan, first passenger from her State. The bridge was open...
...bridge, called the George Washingon Memorial Bridge, is a suspension bridge and contains the longest (3,500 ft.) span in the world. The supporting towers on each side of the Hudson reach 635 ft. above water level. Four steel wire cables, each cable an even yard in diameter, connect the towers and brace the roadways...