Word: length
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerful enemy secured a base at [Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Northeastern Canada] ... it could launch a devastating air attack upon our eastern seaboard. ... In the metropolitan area of New York over 7,000,000 people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that we are unprepared but I am confident that it is not a hopeless situation." These were some of the plainest words to which the public had been treated by men in responsible...
...length is 300 paces, and its width eight paces; so that ten mounted men can, without inconvenience, ride abreast." So wrote young Marco Polo after he first saw the bridge of Lukouchiao in the year 1277. But this same bridge, still standing and now named for the Venetian traveler, will be more remembered in history for a fateful incident which happened one hot, fretful summer night, 660 years later...
Slick-skimming Syracuse set the pace, followed by Navy, Cornell and Washington, the favorite. At the two-mile mark, when Syracuse had burned itself out, Washington's Huskies inched ahead. At the railroad bridge they were three-quarters of a length in front. But from behind came powerful, undefeated Cornell, pride of the East. Down the last mile, the Big Red crew pulled alongside the Huskies, rowed...
From the banks, in the gathering darkness, it looked as if they passed the judges' float in a photo finish. But when the results were run up, Washington was declared the winner (for the third time in five years) by nearly half a length-with Syracuse third, Navy fourth and Princeton, making its debut in the Intercollegiate, eighth and last. To the victorious crew went added glory when it was learned that they had 1) rowed 2½ extra miles to the starting line earlier in the afternoon only to discover that, unbeknown to them, the race had been...
...Picture. At first glance All This and Heaven Too seemed to have almost everything that could possibly be crowded into it. It had impressive length (two hours, 20 minutes). It had shrewd, hard bitten Bette Davis to play the love-crossed governess; doe-eyed, dove-voiced Charles Boyer to play her great friend, the Duke de Praslin; hectic, handsome, breast-clutching Barbara O'Neil to play his insanely jealous Duchess. It had three charming, flounce-skirted children to play the Praslin daughters - Virginia Weidler, June Lockhart, Ann Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic...