Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good old days of horse there was all the difference in the world between driving a span and driving tandem. Until the "Annex", growing into Radcliffe, came into existence, Harvard was on a strictly one-horse basis, with no necessity of choosing between the two methods of "hitching up." From the entrance of girls upon the educational scene it adopted the tandem plan, and, except for the Graduate School of Education, has clung to it with a masculine tenacity. Now it is announced that the women students in the Summer School of this year of grace are to be housed...
...already received its columns of praise; the midnight excursion to the haunts of the Nautch-girls has been written with a consummate delicacy and just as consummate a sincere frankness. The objectivity of the book, the chronicle of the details of a masterly adventurer places it above the brief span of a best-seller...
Bull Pup. Racier than the Junior is the Bull Pup, a single-seat high-wing monoplane announced at $1,250 last fortnight by Buhl Aircraft Co. Features: Szekely 3-cylinder motor of 45 h. p. Top speed 92 m. p. h., landing speed 35. But a larger wing span is provided for buyers who want to fly and land more slowly...
...following may be of interest to Henry Pertle and TIME on "Wheat's Life Span" (TIME...
...December 1885 a friend gave me a sample of a special variety of wheat, then six years old, to experiment with as to its life span. I sealed the wheat in paper and sealed container. It lay in my house away from light for 35 years and ten years ago was planted. It had been 41 years since harvested. Every grain seemed to grow. The next year I had quite a patch of measured ground and thrashed out the grain at the rate of 45 bu. per acre...