Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moses lived to the golden age of 120-and gave his people a toast that has endured the centuries. "Biz hundert un tswantsik [until 120]," says the Jew on anniversary occasions, expressing the hope that the honored guest may live to equal Moses' span. Last week Jews all over the world raised a figurative glass to one among them that had reached the magic year: the Jewish Chronicle, the world's oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper...
...national newspapers. And there are many who doubt that the U.S. needs or would sustain one. The functions of a national newspaper are already performed by some of the nation's newsmagazines, as well as by news coverage on radio and TV. Moreover, the continental span-2,807 miles-poses formidable problems to any paper trying to reach readers in Los Angeles, New York, Madawaska, Me., and Brownsville, Texas, with the same news at the same time. But despite such obstacles, two U.S. dailies were busy last week preparing to assume a national look...
...significant work is all concentrated in the ten-year span from 1920 to 1930. The novels after 1930, even the successful It Can't Happen Here and Kingsblood Royal, were jerry-built, and some of them were embarrassingly bad. E. M. Forster predicted his decline as early as Dodsworth; in an essay on Lewis called "A Camera Man," he wrote: "Photography is a pursuit for the young. So long as a writer has the freshness of youth on him, he can work the snapshot method, but when it passes he has nothing to fall back upon. It is here...
...view of Indiana University Limnologist David Frey, 45, who last week passed sentence on Douglas Lake, almost every fresh-water lake in the world awaits the same unhappy fate. Like humans, says Frey, lakes grow old and inevitably die, in a predictable life span that man himself is abbreviating...
...artists in the Essen show span two generations, and their posters cover everything from Communist youth rallies to safety regulations to new movies...