Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Gain. Last week General Motors reported that it earned more in this year's first three quarters than any company ever has in a similar span-$1.08 billion-and that G.M. third-quarter profits rose 12% over last year's level to an eight-year high of $208 million. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough announced earnings so far this year of $150 million, 22% above the first nine months of troubled...
...around town picking up an odd tourist dollar. This year's estimate: 32,000 visitors, nearly 1,000 rooms, and a tourist trade of $2,400,000. The burros are still there and the bands play on. But the old footbridge has given way to a broad concrete span...
...read his name-that sumptuous span...
McLandress' unique contribution to science is the McLandress Coefficient, or McL-C (pronounced Mack-el-see), as it is known in professional circles. In plain language, a McL-C represents the average span of time for which an individual's thoughts remain centered on any subject other than himself. It is reached, according to its inventor, by "various depth perception techniques," including the frequency with which the subject invokes the first person singular in the course of an interview, a book, a speech or an article...
Down with the Sparrows. The span of his creative life was incredibly brief. At 18, still apprenticed to the surgeon, he was barely able to imitate second-rate writers like Leigh Hunt, and was proud of such dreadful lines as "Ah God, she is like a milk white lamb that bleats." In the next four years, he completed a verse play and nearly all of the poems that were to establish him among the immortals. And in his letters, he wrote about what poetry could do and evolved a new poetic theory...