Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruins had to settle for a single field goal midway through the second quarter as the visitors coughed up three fumbles in a 12-minute span...
...unexpected reigned supreme for the Harvard football team on Saturday at Palmer Stadium: the sure-handed halfback fumbled with 28 seconds left, "come from behind" had a somewhat compromising meaning, and all the Crimson touchdowns were notched in a span of less than five minutes...
...have joined a movement of dinosaurs who don't have modern liberal education in mind. It's a movement that extends from good intentions to some very conservative ideas." Nevertheless, with high schools providing increasingly uneven preparation, college faculties are realizing they must teach students "with the short attention span of television instead of the long attention span of Tolstoy," says Riesman...
...turmoil of modern life; his fascination with the melodic patterns of speech, bird calls and animal cries appeals to contemporary music's interest in sounds. Janáček's chilling opera, The Makropoulos Affair, about a glamorous woman cursed with a 300-year life span, has recently been performed in San Francisco and at the New York City Opera. The Metropolitan Opera and Santa Fe have also staged major Janáček productions...
Surprisingly enough, the Harvard stick-women never gained the lead until the final two minutes of play when junior marvel Sarah Mleczko scored her second goal in a two-minute span...