Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Researchers have found that they can increase the life span of laboratory animals by underfeeding them and thus delaying maturation. This phenomenon, they believe, occurs because a smaller intake of food results in the formation of fewer cross linkages?connecting rods that link together and partly immobilize the long protein and nucleic acid molecules essential to life. If scientists can retard cross linking in man, they may well slow his aging process. Scientists also hope that they can some day do away with disease, genetically breeding out hereditary defects while breeding in new immunities to bacterial and other externally caused...
...urged the advocates of the Yale Plan, which essentially offers all Yale students the opportunity to pay their tuition over a 35-year span, "to be very cautious because it's based on predictions and good faith and it wouldn't take much to bankrupt a university...
Harvard scored its first two goals within a 19-second span in the middle of the first period. The first was scoredby Dave Hynes on a back-hander after he had carried the puck into the zone and fought off 215-pound captain Frank Sanders and Bruce MacIntesh...
...Tigers made a small comeback in the second period. narrowing Harvard's lead to 6-3 with ten minutes gone, but Hynes, DeMichele, and Cavanagh connected within the span of six minutes to give the Crimson a six goal lead after two periods...
...personal vendetta, M. "Deac" Dake scored 23 points in a span of 42 seconds to lead the CRIMSON past the Daily Pennsylvanian, 23-2, in a game played at halftime Friday night in the Palestra...