Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motor drive from Bogotá, the new bridge over the deep, swift Río Minero had seemed as permanent and reassuring as Thornton Wilder's bridge of San Luis Rey. It was made of wood, suspended from steel cables. Across the 100-ft. span, donkey carts rattled, bringing produce to market. Across it, campesinos and the mountain people trudged to Pauna for the Saturday fiestas...
Nowhere did this action meet with greater approval than in Bogotá itself, where Bogotanos had despaired of having their mountain capital spic & span for the January meeting. For seven months, 500 men had been on the job from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., refurbishing the century-old Capitolio Nacional, where the sessions will be held. Behind locked doors, Artist Martinez Delgado painted until 2 a.m. on a fresco depicting Bolivar's inauguration in 1821. The block-long Ministry of Government building on the Avenida Jiménez de Quesada was only half-scoured, the cleaned marble and sandstone...
With only ten minutes remaining in the game, B.U. held a seven point advantage. Over this span, the Varsity was able to make only two field goals and two fouls. Meanwhile, the Terriers were notching 15 points...
...NAPS span the continent, says the press card the Editor hands me, and it says that we've got offices in New York, Montreal, Seattle, and a helluva lot of other big cities...
...selecting eggs from adolescent, mature and doddering rotifers, he determined that children of aged females die young, while offspring of youngsters live long. Lansing juggled rotifer generations around, eventually became expert enough to predict the life span of any given batch of eggs...