Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compromise. It was a perfectly pious patriotic wish for peace. There is no reason why it could not be adopted by any political or ecclesiastical party. But it was sufficient to satisfy the conscience that the Church had done something about "the war question." As such it received big space in the reviews of the Conference...
...Derick of the Medical School of Harvard University studied the changes in the hearts of long distance runners. They found that men, who had been doing long distance running for years, did not develop enlargement of the heart. They found, also, that the amount of breathing space in the lungs did not seem to affect in one way or another the running ability of the men. This year the same observers studied the men who attempted to qualify for the Olympic games in the Boston marathon, a course of 26 miles and 285 yards. The contestants were examined...
Well, what is Youth going to do about it? I do not wish to spend the space of the Harvard CRIMSON on words about myself but in order to avoid misunderstanding I must say that I am not affiliated officially or unofficially with any organization in America or England, that I am acting on my own initiative and responsibility entirely, and that I do not wish to claim any credit for what I am doing or for the originality of the idea. I have had an experience which has burnt certain views and convictions into me and I felt that...
...clerks will have to be employed?the greater portion of them, 2,800, by the War Department which has to go over the records of 5,250,000 men, now encased in 7,066 steel filing cabinets, weighing 1,080 tons and occupying 2.36 acres of floor space in the old Washington Barracks arsenal. More clerks could profitably be employed, except that they could not get at the cabinets. On each application 27 checking operations have to be made. The matter will be complicated by the fact that the files include 50,328 Smiths, 40,101 Johnsons, 28,902 Browns...
...these are the best stories that journalism can give, they are certainly crude examples of "belles lettres." Largely responsible for their crudity are the limitations of newspaper work. Time and space do not permit the careful building up of background. Less excusable is the all too frequent lack of coherence...