Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gathered dust in warehouses from Sydney to New York was polished and reinstalled in her cabins, saloons and lounges. Decks and rails that had been pitted with the initials of some of the 765,000 troops the Queen had carried in wartime were scraped smooth once more. Spick & span in new uniforms, many of her old crewmen were back to serve again under jovial Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, the Queen Mary's chief officer...
...hundred and seventy-one years ago, an American nation started its span of history. Two million Americans issued a call that stirred the political consciousness of mankind...
Everything was spic & span at No. 2 Piazza dell' Esquilino in Rome last week. Officials of the Argentine Embassy had spent 200 million lire (more than $250,000 at black-market rates) to clean and refurbish the four-story, 40-room building in honor of their house guest, Maria Eva Duarte...
...Length of biblical (and British) cubit: 18 inches. David's Goliath towered six cubits and a span...
...these 16 profound and erudite essays (which are now collected in book form for the first time), readers will find themselves standing at the latter end of a span that covers 200 years of intellectual and social development, and stems from cultural traditions as old as the Renaissance...