Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobby was crowded, too, with wives and friends of new Labor M.P.s. Many came straight from the bleak mining towns of the north. They gazed in awe at the unfamiliar pageantry. Completely unawed was Violet Attlee, who is still doing her own housework in her spick-&-span Stanmore villa, and has not yet moved into No. 10 Downing Street...
...legitimate T.N.E., result of a national reorganization in 1925, enjoyed a brief span of respectability, had died quietly of inanition...
...MIDDLE SPAN: VOLUME II, PERSONS AND PLACES - George Santayana -Scribner...
...grew old, writes George Santayana in this second volume of his autobiography, "persons yielded in interest to places." But The Middle Span is mostly about the people the great Spanish-born philosopher knew during his years as a professor of philosophy at Harvard -somnambulistic years he calls them, when his progress was slow, his standing uncertain, and when President Eliot looked on him without approval...
Near the end of the span's tenth day in U.S. hands, some 200 Army engineers were working among its girders and underpinnings, continuing the repairs they had been rushing for several days. There had been no more bombing for 36 hours. There was no traffic on the bridge. Without warning, the 512-foot central span teetered drunkenly, swayed to the south, then collapsed...