Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swath. He picked it up and saw the initials E. B. 1892 on its shell. His old friend had returned, no larger, no quicker and seemingly no older, after 39 years. He showed the "prodigal" to family and neighbors. Then he let it go again to wander another span of years, perhaps to be picked up once more by Birdsall, or by Birdsall's son, Edward Jr. who also carves turtles. Who knows...
...clearance to accommodate the masts of the Leviathan, Majestic, Olympic, Bremen and Berengaria, which otherwise could not get above 57th Street. The Bridge company pointed out that 135 ft. was the highest liner stack, offered to put collapsible masts on vessels that could not get under their span. The Army's decision was a victory for the Fifth Avenue Association and other civic groups who argued that the congested midtown district could not absorb new traffic from the bridge...
Austrian-born Engineer Gustav Lindenthal, builder of New York City's Hellgate Bridge, co-builder of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnels under the Hudson River and planner of the prospective bridge to span the Hudson at Manhattan's 57th Street, celebrated his 81st birthday and said: "In half a century, perhaps . . . New York will . . . rise a great, white, shining city, such as the world has never known, and men will be more at peace there than anywhere on the earth. . . . But I know what will happen in 200 years. . . . New York will be like a ripe apple. All things...
...Commencement week by the members of the Class of 1906. At least the Alumni can not be accused of being lazy if they meet all the engagements set for them. But they are determined to resurrect all the memories and manners of their undergraduate days in the short span of a week and will carry through their intentions to the bitter dregs...
...they went "into the country" for the second time, Grakle began to move up. At Becher's Brook again, Solanum fell, then Easter Hero. Great Span went down at the Canal fence. At Valentine's Brook Drin fell with a broken leg, was later shot. Coming into the "race course," the long gentle curve that ends the 47-mile Grand National steeplechase, Gregalach, Grakle and Ballasport were in the lead together. R. Lyall up on Grakle cleared the last fence first, swung in to the rail...