Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco?charmingly provincial still, studiously cosmopolitan. Even Twain is impressed with that great sculpture in steel, the Golden Gate Bridge. People, he is told, come from miles around just to jump from it, but these visitors prefer to enjoy the scene from the hills immediately northwest of the span...
...Crimson nine dropped three games in a 28-hour span between Friday and Saturday, marking the final weekend action of Harvard's baseball season. The varsity was mugged by Cornell on Friday afternoon (Score: 16-3), and came back on Saturday to drop two to Army (8-7 and 4-3), leaving only this Thursday's game with Northeastern to determine a winning or losing year...
After the war, the object was not to control the river but to span it. There had been bridges before, most notably the Great Bridge of 1649. It had been a heroic effort for the small community of Cambridge. Heroic and exhausted, for when it began to crumble soon after, the townspeople were willing to spend neither the time nor the money to restore it Eventually the bridge fell into the river and the commuting public returned to Mr. Cooke's penny ferry. After Mr. Cooke, Harvard College ran the ferry, the same boat to Charlestown that Paul Revere used...
...bust surrounded by the paintings of Henri Matisse and his disciples, he made a wisecrack about "Donatella chez les fauves" (Donatello among the wild beasts), thus giving a short-lived movement a very durable and misleading label. Fauvism was worked out by a small group of artists over a span of three years; it was dead by 1907. It could coarsely be defined as what Matisse and France's Midi region did to half a dozen painters: to Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain, to Raoul Dufy and Georges Braque, to Kees van Dongen and Henri Manguin...
...after one of the most remarkable recitals in the long history of New York's Carnegie Hall. Ever so gingerly Pianist Artur Rubinstein-at 89, four years older than Carnegie-was blowing his own horn. The huge hands (he can span a twelfth, which is an octave plus four white notes) were spread imploringly on the table. The gray-blue eyes gazed boyishly across the hotel room where his wife of 43 years, Aniela, his Nela, was reading on the sofa. In the inquiring way that some husbands have with wives they depend on, he was at once asking...