Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 1870 until the present the space given the School library in the reports of the Deans to the President and the President to the Overseers indicates its importance in the minds of the governing boards of the University. As the President said, "The Corporation recognize the fact that the library is the very heart of the School...
...That the fundamental postulates of Einstein that ether does not exist and that gravity is not a force, but a property of space, are crazy vagaries, disgraceful in a scientific age, and repudiated by the Paris Academy of Sciences and by reputable German scholars...
...have occurred to the press agents, barkers and ballyhoo men of Barnum and Bailey's that anybody might ask "Well, what of it?" or "Who cares?" With an unerring understanding of popular psychology, they realize that what the American wants is quantity- all the measurements of time, space, and movement in the nth degree. We have the fastest locomotives, the biggest hotels, the longest railroads, and the largest crops in the world, and 'these measurements are their chief justification. Not how fine but how much is our motto, and the circus has made of this article of American...
...engaged in public school teaching, needs to be assured of the respect in which it is held by the community. Newspaper comment bears witness to one of the elements of respect-interest. It may well be doubted whether the metropolitan papers will ever devote to teachers the amount of space they devote to the Mayor, to say nothing of Pola Negri and Battling Siki. But they might very properly be more sensitive to important work in the schools than they now are. And they might well give credit by name where credit by name...
...humorist is usually a passing fancy with the public. His brand of wit catches the popular eye, holds it for a space, then is forgotten, as a new humorist comes along with a new method of twisting his phrases, of rolling his tongue or of winking his eye. Stephen Leacock's popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly...