Word: span
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With the great upsurge in pension demands, there is increasing talk about lowering the retirement age. But some economists, noting that the life span is increasing, are beginning to think that the trend should be in just the opposite direction...
...kissing and spitting in churches as indistinguishable from gross irreverence. But even if this gap of custom between Northern and Southern Christendom is never likely to be wholly bridged, men of good will on both sides will always appreciate honest, intelligent attempts to throw some sort of span across...
Master's Voice. In Newark, Ark., a span of mules heard the opening bars of Mule Train over a nearby jukebox, broke into high gallop at the first "Hiyah," scattered and splattered their load of plows all across town...
...year schoolteacher, $90,000 represents . . . practically the entire productive segment of his life span...
Last week Africa's black, broad-smiling Bishop Kiwanuka ended a crowded four months' visit to the U.S. He was impressed by Manhattan's "forest of tall buildings" and the great bridges that span U.S. rivers. He was less impressed by a professional hockey game ("too rough"). But he was most impressed of all by the enthusiasm for himself and his cause which he found everywhere he went...