Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steele is an old hand at contriving tales, some of which he tries to tell as Conrad or Maugham would. Those selected in this book - 24 stories written over a span of some 30 years - remain as readable as they were salable in the '20s, when they were hot stuff in Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly. Gullah dialect, a Mohammedan marriage ceremony, the way a schooner's boom may swing when she luffs - such varied "local color" is thickly applied...
Although the barges are similar in appearance to the racing, shells, there are certain differences which are of paramount importance to the untried crew. Some of the differences, said Coach Haines, are a wider span, a false keel, and a general all-around greater stability...
...Rural Route 3. At 51, Franklin Anderson is lean and hard, chocolate-browned by the sun and wind. His farm is his pride, and rightly. He has no debts; his house, unlike the typical Kansas brown frame, is a cheery, red-roofed, red-shuttered white stucco behind a spic-&-span white picket fence. Frank Anderson is a successful...
...reconstructing the Viru Valley region, the diggers can span the whole sweep of the human cycle, from its primitive beginnings to rigor mortis...
...India's Back. They left it to the British Raj to build a "sturdy central pier" (as the London Times called the May 16 White Paper) "requiring only a comparatively short span from either side" to bridge the gulf between Moslem and Hindu. Pakistan was rejected. Instead, the plan set up a union of all India with a central government to control defense, foreign affairs and communications; it could raise revenues for those functions. To please the Moslems the White Paper offered the possibility of strong regional governments which could plan their own economic and social development. Two would...