Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...product not of an indifference on the part of colored youths to the medical and dental professions, but because of limited facilities. Howard University, one of the colleges that gives this training, is obliged to turn away over two-thirds of those who seek admission because of inadequate laboratory space. These facts lend point to an announcement by the Department of Interior that it has included in its appropriation for next year $500,000 to improve the plant of Howard University- thereby doubling the number of medical students that the University can train...
Here, tucked away in a corner, is a poem by a man now famous throughout the English-speaking world ? bought as a space-filler then. Here is the one fine short story published by another?now his novels sell by the hundred thousand, but if he is remembered beyond a decade it will be for that short story. A ponderous article shivers at the radicalism of certain daring young artists ? now safely tucked away by the new sophisticates on the dusty shelf of reactionary classicism. Another proves a European War impossible with the most convincing sort of statistics...
...tiny machine, the XS-I, equipped with a 60 horsepower air-cooled engine, weighing but 1,000 pounds, so small that it can be placed in an ordinary living room. Ingenious construction enables the plane to be knocked down rapidly and stowed away in the few cubic feet of space available in the restricted interior of a submarine...
...quarter of a block admirably located with respect to the Pennsylvania Railroad, Public Service Terminal, Hudson Tubes and prospective subway developments. The new management, consisting of Messrs. Kresge and Plaut, and the banking firm of Merrill, Lynch & Co., expect to build up the balance of the ground floor space in the near future...
...street will find the Outline an easy and informative introduction to the best that has been written in every language. It will not educate the uneducated nor furnish, in itself, a royal road to learning, but within its scope it is valuable and, as far as space allows, complete. Readably written, though without any touch of distinction, its obvious merits should bring it wide and deserved popularity. It will set no mind afire, in all probability-but then, the most valuable mental eruptions are generally produced by spontaneous combustion...