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Word: spans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trailing the Big Green cagers (now 0-5) 56-47 with little more than eight minutes remaining in the game, the Crimson finally got its offense untracked, reeling off eight straight points in a crucial two-minute span...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Crimson Cagers Nip Dartmouth, 64-62; Needleman Sparks 2nd-Half Comeback | 12/20/1974 | See Source »

Quite a few photographs span the walls, while one set, by Bob Beusman, zig-zags across a table; Beusman calls it "Thirty-three Kodak Cuties Say Buy Me!", but there are only twenty-four. Bob Ely's pictures, in tempered grays, are slices from a Midwestern wasteland. He has fixed an eerie view of a technological desert: an empty drive-in-movie parking lot with a massive, mottled white screen leaning over it sprouts speakers on poles at gawky angles in the dust, and a jet plane hovers, hawk-like, in one corner...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Visual Motley | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

This is but one response, if a typical one, by white academia to the integration of predominantly white universities. Such responses span the entire range of black-white relationships at institutions of higher learning--from active recruitment to outright condescension...

Author: By Ron Davis and Lisa M. Poyer, S | Title: For Black Faculty and Administrators, It's Not an Easy Life | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...engineer ran some tests on a few food samples out he was too late to check the actual food that might have done the damage. He asked a few questions about how the food was handled and was satisfied that everything and everyone in the kitchen was spic and span. And he ran a stool test on one stricken student and was pleased to find that there was no trace of anything embarrassing, except that the stool test could not reveal the embarrassing substances anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egg On Your Face | 11/12/1974 | See Source »

Green, who rushed for 83 yards in the game, scored again in the second quarter from nine yards out, while Gesicki's two touchdowns, runs of five and 13 yards, came within a span of 24 seconds in the third period...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Elis Down Penn, Move Closer to Showdown; Brown Topples Cornell; Dartmouth Victorious | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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