Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lnvasion Practice. The bridge is adaptable to various kinds of traffic; a three-tier framework three panels wide can carry the heaviest tanks. A single span can be thrust 240 feet; by laying the ends on pontoons and joining sections, Bailey Bridges as long as 1,200 feet have been built...
Watts had settled down to live out his span under the palms, took a Burmese wife, fathered half-caste children. When the Japs came he had elected to remain with his family; the enemy let him alone...
...Network announces the election of Phillip Stern '47, as President; Charles Shaw '46, as Technical Director; William Sullivan '45, as Business Manager; and Cliff Wharton '47, as Production Director. Martin Book-span '47, continues as Program Manager...
...most stubborn fact of Lenin's life was that he had achieved the world's greatest political revolution. The most stubborn fact of Stalin's was that he achieved the world's greatest economic revolution. It was a long way-the span of a crucial epoch of world history-from the Tsar's jails, police files and fingerprints to revolutionary triumph and apotheosis...
Outside Philadelphia, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. opened its spick-&-span $26,000,000 plant with a blare of publicity. A month later the Navy canceled its contract with Budd...