Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good Roman Catholics live and die by seven sacraments, which they believe were instituted by Jesus Christ. The nature of these sacraments is such that they span the full life of man, but few men could lead full enough lives to receive all seven during a lifetime. Last week, however, the news service of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (U. S. hierarchical agency) discovered a man who had-the Abbé André Durupt, chaplain of a soldiers' home at Lunéville, France...
...that day. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King motored over a series of bridge spans, viaducts and curving highways, came to a stop on a go-foot span. Below them rippled a narrow streamer of the St. Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...
Peninsular San Francisco was linked in 1936 to busy, populous, mainland Oakland by the 8½-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge. In 1937 it was joined to sparsely settled, residential Marin County, across the Gate, by the mighty Golden Gate Span. Before that, motorists used to pay a minimum toll of 60? to be barged over the same routes on ferries owned by the Southern Pacific Company. Last year, with both bridges charging a 50? toll, the ferries began to undersell them by charging 30? one way, 50? round trip. San Francisco suspected that the Southern Pacific...
...high bank of the Hudson River near the braced, tremendous span of the George Washington Bridge, the City of New York owns 56 acres of rock ledge and greenery called Fort Tryon Park. There last week the mayor, the park commissioner, the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the world's greatest philanthropist dedicated a magnificent museum of medieval art. Named "The Cloisters," this finely-proportioned granite building with red tiled roofs lacks nothing but a chapter of Benedictines to be one of the most beautiful monasteries in the world...
...flowing cape. The privileged German editors each received two blue-black uniforms and six pairs of gloves, were warned to have one of the uniforms always freshly cleaned and pressed, ready to be donned at a moment's notice, since every German must be 100% spick & span to be seen with the Führer...