Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Straining for Second Wind. Racing to beat Wimpenny and his crew to the historic flight are two other British flying clubs. Southampton University aerodynamics students have built Sumpac, which has an 80-ft. wing span and also uses a pusher propeller. Their pilot is longdistance Runner Martin Hyman, who pedals in a low-slung cockpit while reclining on his back. Sumpac, which made its maiden flight one week before Puffin, is still given to ground loops and violent yaws that its pilot is unable to control...
After more than five years of use, oral contraceptives have proved to be "virtually 100% effective,' reported the authoritative Medical Letter. But the report hastened to add a warning: birth-control pills still have not been used "over a sufficient part of the human life span to rule out the possibility of important injurious effects...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. During a span of 43 years, Robert F. Stroud became a renowned authority on the diseases of birds, and produced an exhaustive book on the subject. He also wrote a mammoth study of the federal penal system. He did both while serving the longest term in solitary confinement in U.S. prison history at Leavenworth and Alcatraz, as the convicted murderer...
GENERAL Education in the Natural Sciences at Harvard is supposedly defined by two Faculty studies that span 14 years. The latest is the Bruner committee report, brought out early in 1959; the other is the "redbook" of 1945, General Education in a Free Society...
...history. Cultures, said Oswald Spengler, are limited biological forms of life?like inchworms, like oak trees, like men. Mysteriously born, they inexorably grow old, decay according to discernible pattern and then die. What is more, Spengler insisted, Western culture has already reached the last stages of its allotted life span...