Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...page for a' that; and the student may use single, double, or even triple space at will and leave margins of a width not prescribed. This permits the number of words to a page to be doubled or to be halved. Having spent all my business life in close contact with authors, editors, literary agents, printers and printers' link, I told my guest that the universal practice in the literary shop is to measure MSS by the number of words and not by the sheet or page. I even proposed that he ask his instructors in this course to follow...
Under cross examination Leslie revealed that Adams had made four wills quite close together in point of time. In addition to the will which names Harvard the chief beneficiary there are bequests which give the $70,000 estate to Henry Gordon Thistle, male nurse and masseur employed by Adams, and to Jesse D. Crook, an old friend and associate in the practice...
...right to voice opinion because of the unlawful violence which has accompanied many strikes and followed, after successful negotiation, many more. A well-known trade magazine showed that labor violence forced 58 plants, representing 200 million's worth of capital and a half million in Social Security taxes, to close for keeps--statistics which Washington admitted it makes no effort to collect. Unions cannot afford to be divided, to hold Communistic and racketeering elements, nor to coerce the free will of their members...
...acting of "Angel" is never brilliant, the story is improbable, and the conclusion not wholly convincing; but sheer technique has raised it above the common run. The photography, particularly in the close-ups of Miss Dietrich, the skillful contrast of the gowns she wears as Angel and Maria's tailored English costumes, the detail of the sets, the handling of suspense, the clever way in which the telephone is twice used to advance the plot, scraps of dialogue which show, a little satirically perhaps, the social structure of "this Sacred Plot," these and a score of other subtleties prove...
...bottom tip of Manhattan Island were in no hurry. Their tiny lanes rambled and twisted between their farms and homes. In 1807 New York City planners laid out a grid of narrow crosstown and wider up & downtown streets from 14th to 155th. The crosstown streets were placed at close intervals because it was thought that much of the town's up & downtown traffic would be borne by the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east. The grid street plan worked very well for a century. Old photographs of Manhattan's thoroughfares...