Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Medical science presents a comical contradiction in taking credit for longer life span and then lobbying against giving us its services...
...piano, short (5 ft. 6 in.), 49-year-old Shura Cherkassky looked a little like a pouncing falcon. Perched on the edge of his stool, his face near the keys, he struck thunderous volleys of sound without clouting the keys or becoming percussive and harsh. Unhampered by a span* of only ten keys, he executed impressively agile runs, showed off subtly colored nuances without ever sagging into sentimentality. Headlined Der Tagesspiegel: "A TRIUMPH OF VIRTUOSITY...
Time Past. Unlike Tancredi, the prince is too proud, too much the unbending leopard on his own family crest, to be able to lick his wounds by joining those who inflict them. In the mid-span of his life he courts oblivion ("While there's death there's hope"), and measures out the ''sediment of grief which, accumulating day by day, would in the end be the real cause of his death...
There is no doubt that radio messages can span interstellar distances. Dr. Purcell estimates that the total power of all the 21-cm. waves that bathe the earth's surface is equal to the power of only one watt, but modern antennas can pick them up easily. And this week's Project Ozma is a first small step in an effort that might take one year or 10,000 to turn a dream into reality...
...past eight years, as spiritual shepherd of Methodists in Southern California, Arizona and Hawaii, Bishop Kennedy has proved himself a tireless circuit rider. His 403 churches span 2,500 miles, embrace 225,000 members. He visits them all (he once dropped in on 23 parishes in one month) and averages seven sermons or speeches a week. Amid all his momentum, Bishop Kennedy can be pungently articulate. Examples: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: "It simply doesn't work. Look at the crime rates." AMERICAN EDUCATION : "A kind of state-supported baby-sitting service." SOUTH AFRICA: "The foundation of law has been destroyed...