Word: spanning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Husband and wife frequently have the same life span. To explain this fact, Dr. Ciocco was driven to "vague but understandable terms." Marriage, said he, brings "pairing ... of individuals having a similar degree of vitality or resistance to fatal pathological processes." And they both live in the same environment...
Spick and span in grey suit, blue shirt and tie, and looking in the best of ruddy British spirits, Bertrand Russell came back to Harvard yesterday for his first long visit since...
...world. Its four-lane concrete highway, one and a quarter miles long, is the deck of 25 cement pontoons. The bridge actually floats, seven feet deep, in the water. As if the engineers had not had a hard enough job, they had also to include a draw-span, to take care of lake shipping. The draw-span section is made up of two pontoons. One forms a Y, the other floats between its arms, sliding out to close the bridge, slipping in to leave 200 feet of open water. The 25 concrete pontoons are honeycombed with watertight compartments. From both...
...founder of the 20th-century science of "dendrochronology"-telling time (in years) by means of tree rings. The thickness of the annual growth rings in trees is proportional to the year's rainfall. Thus the rings fall in patterns corresponding to the varying rainfall supplies during the life span of the tree. By matching patterns from logs of recent date to successively older & older specimens, Dr. Douglass carried a continuous record back several hundred years. Examining logs in the ruins of Indian pueblos built before Columbus, he was able to tell the exact year when the wood...
...Dublin feels quite cheerful about the longer span of life in the U. S., the decrease in communicable diseases, the declining death rate from pneumonia. But, since his chief concern is with causes of death, he is regarded by many laymen as a great viewer-with-alarm. He publishes a series of creepy pamphlets every month begging motorists not to drive more than 35 miles an hour (he never speeds himself), warning middle-aged men of the dangers of a paunch, telling landlubbers to stay out of small boats. As every policyholder knows, one of the most dangerous places...