Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend toward more school after high school has this year reached the point where, for the first time, the span of education of the average U.S. jobholder tops twelve years, but automation and technology are rapidly making that level inadequate. At the same time, job competition is soaring swiftly: a million more 18-year-olds will enter the nation's labor market this year than last. Applications for college enrollment next fall are expected to leap by a dramatic 40% over...
...began to gain speed. As the spacecraft curved into its final dive, it swept across the face of the moon at a lower altitude than its predecessor. In 23 minutes it sent back 7,000 pictures, nearly twice the number returned by Ranger VII, over a five-minute longer span...
Eisenstein's formal thematic approach to the story obscures the narrative. (He seems to assume that the audience already knows the plot.) The dramatic suspense suffers from his visual elaborations. Dialogue labels characters "good" or "bad" rather than engaging our interest in them. Furthermore, montage expands the time span of crucial events instead of condensing it. Eisenstein relies on the "rhythm" of the cutting and the motion within the Odessa Steppes scene to keep things exciting; but the silent tumult, the stationary camera, and the formality of description strain a modern audience's attention...
Harvard had one abortive little scoring outburst early in the second half before Princeton sewed the game up. In a three-minute span Sedlacek hit two 20-foot jumpers; Merle McClung sank a fall-away jumper; Barry Williams swished a foul shot; and Al Bornheimer scored on a long bomb, making the score a respectable 41-31. But in the next three minutes the Crimson, ruffled by a Tiger press, committed six ball-handling errors. Princeton quickly pulled in front 51-33, and after that the game degenerated into a sloppy, foul-plagued rout...
...simple expedient of picking top poets and giving them a useful chunk of cash, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry has established itself in the relatively short span of 16 years as probably the most highly regarded of U.S. literary awards. Since 1948, when a distinguished jury stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency...