Word: space
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have emphatic significance. "The difference," he says, "between going just right or a little wrong will be the difference of finding yourself in good quarters or in a miserable bog or slough at the end of your journey through life." This principle of justice carried out religiously through the space of thirty years, made Amos Lawrence one of our most wealthy and honored citizens. "I made it a rule," he says, "to have property to represent forty per cent more than I owed"; and, following out this rule, he rose from a very small beginning to great opulence...
...space of twenty days...
...gladly give space to the following resolutions passed at a late meeting of the Sophomore Class in memory of their classmate, Alfred Henry Jones, who died of small-pox at Springfield, August...
...been influenced in the direction of his weakness rather than in that of his strength; of Mivers, and his Londoner, so like in principle to a periodical nearer home. The incidents with which the book abounds are all very interesting, though many of them are improbable. Even want of space cannot prevent our referring to the fete-day speech of the hero; when he wished his father's tenants a speedy death, as the greatest good which could happen to them. One can almost see the honest British yeomen, wiping the beer from their big mouths, and gazing in stupid...
...best part of the University Reporter is the ample space occupied by advertisements, prominent among which is the card of Miss Nellie Eaton, milliner...