Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ever since the days of Hippocrates (400 B.C.), huge tides of flu have washed the world. Contrary to popular opinion, the epidemics have not always run in cycles of 20 years. In modern times the span between them seems to be around three decades. A wave of flu inundated Europe and the U. S. during the 1830s; others followed in 1847, 1889. Greatest epidemic in history was the scourge of 1918-19, which killed more than 20,000,000 people all over the world, more than half a million in the U. S. alone. Last year Ihe Journal...
...statistics made good reading to all Hitler-haters-Consolidated: weight, 20 tons; cruising range, 1,500-mile radius; speed, 300 m.p.h.; crew, nine; wing span, 110 ft.; engines, four 1,200-h.p. Pratt & Whitneys; bomb load, maximum five tons. Boeing: weight, 22 tons; cruising range, 1,500-mile radius; speed, 280 m.p.h.; crew, nine; wing span, 110 ft.; engines, four 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclones; bomb load, maximum five and a half tons...
Prince Saionji's life span was staggering. This was a man who was intimate not only with Balfour, Clemenceau, Hindenburg, Wilson, but who wrestled in the flesh with the Emperor Meiji when the latter was a boy, heard Franz Liszt play his own music, talked politics with Prince Bismarck, had audiences with Queen Victoria and Ulysses S. Grant. As a student in Paris he saw the Commune of 1871 and learned liberalism in its laboratory. His public services were those which would have made five men great: Minister to Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president...
...weight, tightened like a bow string, whipping the vertical cables into the air like fish lines. Reporter Coatsworth's car with dog inside plunged into the Sound. All five people on the bridge escaped, all badly battered. Professor Farquharson, retreating behind the towers, watched as the central span rose higher in a last release of tension, snapped, and plunged into the water 190 ft. below...
...centre span (2,800 ft.) is the third longest in the world. Longer: George Washington (3,500) across the Hudson at Manhattan, Golden Gate (4,200) at San Francisco...