Word: spanning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...high in such bridge masterpieces is New York City's Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, spanning the East River between Long Island and The Bronx. Last week the American Institute of Steel Construction voted it "most beautiful monumental steel bridge completed in the U. S. during 1939." Fourth longest in span...
Bridge leaves a vivid impression of airiness. Between its low railings and threadlike, widely spaced trusses, the main span suddenly opens out on a panoramic sweep of marine landscape over which a motorist has an illusion of flying...
Oldest of Ogontz prizes is the "Whisk-Broom Neatness" award. To girls whose rooms are spick-&-span go silver brooms engraved: "Order is Heaven's first law." This year's 16 whisk-broom winners were applauded by many a broom-winner mother and grandma (80% of the students are related to graduates) in the audience...
...said, "remains one of the principal deterrents to the absorption of work-relief recipients in private industry. There is, in fact, a serious problem at both ends of the working span. The young and inexperienced, just out of school, have had an equally hard time in getting good jobs with these who are past forty. The danger of continued idleness is greater for them than for the older workers...
Last week France met German invasion for the third time in a life span, met it with traditional realism, rhetoric and resourcefulness. To a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies death-serious Premier Paul Reynaud said: "Hitler wants to win the war in two months. If he fails he is lost and he knows it. ... We are perfectly aware of the danger. We know the days, weeks and months coming now will determine the centuries to come. . . . We must not content ourselves with hope and words. Our soldiers are fighting and French blood is flowing. . . . Our lives count for nothing...