Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone has some axe to grind, and if he wants to grind it badly enough, he will find numerous good and sufficient reasons why it ought to be ground. But unless all of the surface cars are going to be run under the surface--there must still be some space roped off for innocent passengers and others not directly interested in traffic dodging. Unless the tracks are moved there will be no more available space for driving, as long as automobiles are forced to keep on the right side of street-cars. And unless the sidewalks are widened considerably, there...
Artists feel it would be inappropriate to take the picture from among its fellows and hang it in the Louvre as a solitary example of American art, although Whistler himself despised most American art and dreamed of the hereafter when he should be given Louvre wall-space...
...always saying perfectly ridiculous things with straight faces, and thereby getting themselves gossiped about and quoted on all the front pages. And when he comes forth with an abandoned statement as his latest concerning the responsibility of the Republican party for Boston's bootleggers, he deserves all the space he gets, as a worthy exponent of the national unconscious humor...
...true story of Holden Chapel makes a chapter in itself. No little space is given to the Law and Medical Schools, and we are given a vivid picture of the early S.A.T.C.'s of the Civil and Revolutionary Wars...
Even modern conceptions, based as they should be, on the discoveries of the spectroscope and telescope, are not always as broad as one might expect. The spaces involved in astronomical measurements are too great to be comprehended. Astronomers, like Flammaxion, for example, realize that there are universes without end, infinite distances apart in infinite space. They know that the whole solar system has been moving through space for ages,--that no star, no planet ever has the same absolute position twice. The popular classification of stars as "fixed", is therefore a purely arbitrary...