Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agrarian party has been taken at a disadvantage. Aside from Stanboulisky, what capable leaders it has are either imprisoned or out of the country in diplomatic service, while its great rank and file of peasants are now busily engaged with crops. Therefore the revolutionists expect for a space to enjoy comparative peace...
...attempt by several politicians to make the rise in sugar prices a national issue failed to interest the public, and sugar reports have sought their way back from the headlines to their usual small space on the financial page of the newspapers...
...real good beer" are available. Six dance halls thrive in this town of 400 that will play host on July 4 to the Dempsey Gibbons fight for the heavyweight championship. Lesser details of the despatch revealed that eight miles of railroad track will be installed for Pullman parking space, the two schools will be turned into temporary lodging houses, canvas and wooden shacks are rising like weeds, and other arrangements are feverishly under way, at a cost of $250,000, to take care of the 50,000 citizenry expected for the battle...
...early years of its existence, peerage was regarded as a burden, for individuals were summoned to sit in the House of Lords more or less at random, the tenure continuing for no definite space of time, and bringing with it no dignity. But soon it was recognized that the office carried with it a certain honor and opportunity for advancement. Gradually the titles became permanent, and finally hereditary, until the right to a seal in the House of Lords by right of ancestry has been sanctioned by constitutional usage...
...this book are at least as effective as those of earlier years. The question would seem to be whether any class is likely to be able to muster enough competent artists to make line drawings a successful feature of the Red Book. Why not dodge the difficulty and save space and expense by omitting drawings from future Red Books or at least reducing their number...