Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrence Scientific School closed its doors and passed out of existence. But in its 60-year life span, Abbott Lawrence's dream left an impression on United States scientific and educational practices that still remains. Professor Eben Norton Horsford gave the first course offered by the Lawrence Scientific School, and in keeping with the School's "practical" air, he also manufactured the panacea which the above handbill advertises. His acid phosphate, along with other products, was so successful that he resigned in 1863 to devote himself entirely to manufacturing. In honor of his endowed chair, the Rumford Professorship, Horsford named...
...idea of a moderate-priced catering service, brought in Joseph Lyons, who gave his name to the company, thus avoiding confusion with their tobacco company, Salmon & Gluckstein. In an era of mirrored gin palaces, those who could not afford the expensive West End restaurants readily took to the spick-&-span teashops. Lyons soon floated to success on an ocean of tea and toasted buns...
Only one objection arose as she drained the jug during the afternoon. A neighboring toiler protested that the gritty crunch of stirred sugar distracted her to the point where she could hardly remember the life span of King Aethulwulf of Britain...
...there was one period-between the Revolution and the War of 1812-and one place, the ports of New England, when the scene was small enough to be grasped and the time span not too great to be covered, when a kind of flowering of commerce took place, as wonderful in its own way as the literary harvest that followed it. Samuel Eliot Morison's The Maritime History of Massachusetts, touches on this period; Salem and the Indies covers it in detail...
...full-grown at two years, lives to an average twelve; a cat is full-grown at ij, lives to ten; a horse, full-grown at four, reaches 25. Reasoned Dr. Bortz: "If a man is physically mature at 25, then he should have an average normal life span of 150 years...