Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday's games, Company C vaulted into first place over the incumbent. Lowell House, by combing Bob Worthington, Bellboy hurler, for 34 hits. Meanwhile, pitcher Wright of the Navy, held Lowell to two runs and ten hits over the seven inning span. As a result, Company C Shaded the outclassed civilians, 26 to 2. In the other game, Company E subdued Company A, 7 to 3, to move into third place...
...Louis the city's 18 Presbyterian churches chose for their local moderator (highest office) the Rev. Alexander Hamilton Johnson, Alabama-born Negro pastor of small, spic & span McPheeters Presbyterian Church. Said Mr. Johnson: "I would rather not have had it. I did not seek it. I would rather seek humility...
...week carry a pension. General Eisenhower's honorary pension would amount to 20 rubles a month, officially worth $3.85, actually worth nobody knows what. The General will receive something else more substantial: a little red passbook entitling him to ride, gratis, any time, on Moscow's spick-&-span, 25-mile subway system. Also on trolleys and busses...
...Searching Wind (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Herman Shumlin) gave Broadway its first really provocative drama of the season. Unlike Playwright Hellman's The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, her The Searching Wind is not predominantly taut, violent, intense. Its span is long and its world spacious, though the action itself is too crowded at times. Playwright Hellman has pitched a handful of lives into the swirling history of our age. Her ominous little Washington dinner party of today not only resolves a puzzling 22-year-old triangle story; it audits the conduct...
...Negro's life span in ten years has increased from 49 to 55 years...