Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work matters more than mission budgets, and who acts accordingly. While her fellow workers trim their efforts to the capacity of the church purse, India packs her mission house with street arabs, a fast-stepping floozy and other unfashionable outcasts. So, while neighboring missions gleam with the spick & span look of good work efficiently done, India's Jasmine Hall assumes more & more the look of a flophouse. When economizing U.S. mission inspectors arrive on a checkup, their budgetary ax falls on Jasmine Hall and India Severn's lifework is destroyed...
Building bridges is slow work. The Eliot Bridge,e which will span the Charles River between Soldiers Field Road and the traffic circle at the west end of Memorial Drive, will take a year to complete...
...bridge will have three arches: two 78 feet wide and 15 feet high and a central one 100 feet wide and 17 feet high--the widest span on the Charles. Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 was consulted; the MDC doesn't want to interfere with the activities of Harvard crews. Both approaches will be continuous-flow rotaries; the MDC doesn't want another such two-headed bottle-neck as the Lars Anderson Bridge. The contract for the rotaries and for the new road on the north shore of the river will be let in July, and the work will...
Today's is a battle between two teams neither of which has as yet fully realized its offensive potentialities. This afternoon they may find themselves in a situation which appears unprecedented in the 45-year span the series has covered. It is likely that the Stadium crowd (smallest of the season) will see a good deal of action as one of these teams finally gets rolling...
With such speedy access to the city as the new span provides, the engineers estimate that nearly two million more vehicles will come into the city in 1950 and that, within 25 years, the figure will go over the 18 million mark. When the old drawbridge is torn out, the Mystic River channel can be widened and any seagoing vessel whose superstructure doesn't stand over 135 feet can go up the river to Everett and Chelsea...