Word: span
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...invented at an earlier date than is commonly given; but probably the ascensions so plainly described here were only to a small height and in a captive balloon. Some, however, maintain that this amusement was not a balloon ascension at all but was diving after stones in muddy water) Span I was a three-legged race, and Gmn 6 a race backward. Various objects of interest were exhibited to amuse those who took no part in the active sports, and to coax away the pennies of the verdant. In one tent, N. H. 2, were the Living Skeleton...
Lived in the fleeting span...
Doubling the curse that brought life's shortened span...
...life's short span thy high hopes train...
...wanderings in peace, let those who are the "workers" in the literary beehive think for a moment whether they may not profitably take a lesson from these seekers after pleasure and wisdom. Since the plants in the field of letters are almost numberless, no man can hope, in the span of an ordinary life, to find time to study them all thoroughly. Is it always true that "a little learning is a dangerous thing...