Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Medical School students in the 1950s were paid $50 in exchange for being injected with radioactive chromium as part of a study examining the life span of red blood cells, The Boston Globe reported this week...
Almost 200 people passed by him within a span of 10 minutes, he said, but most of them ignored...
...Bulldogs scored two quickies in a span of 38 seconds near the end of the second period, but Harvard countered back early in the third off two goals by junior Cory Gustafson...
...Lincoln in Illinois was one of three plays to win Pulitzer Prizes for author Robert E. Sherwood during a five-year span. (The others were Idiot's Delight, a 1936 comedic outcry against the forces breeding World War II, and There Shall Be No Night, a 1940 tragedy about the invasion of Finland.) A commercial success, Abe Lincoln ran more than a year. For its time, an era of patriotic fervor verging on hagiography toward national leaders, it is daringly candid...
...painting: 17th century French works by Stella, Le Brun and Jouvenet, as well as Golden Age Dutch and Flemish canvases by Rubens, Jordaens, Rembrandt, Ter Borch and Jan Brueghel. A research facility is available for the study of 8,000 Italian, French, German and Flemish engravings and drawings that span the past four centuries. Newly opened as well is the Art History Library, with 30,000 volumes and paintings by artists including Matisse and Gericault...