Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete collection consists of 135 large perspective drawings. Owing to limitations of space it will not be possible to show all of these but many of the most interesting and important have been selected...
...seaplane, capable of a speed of 120 miles an hour, to overtake liners which have left New York harbor for English ports. Guided by wireless, the seaplane will alight near a liner and be hoisted aboard. The wings are to be of the folding type, which reduces considerably the space required for storing. When the ship is still hundreds of miles from the English coast the plane will be hoisted overboard and will fly away with the mail...
...Class Day Committee has announced its plans for the Class Day spreads, which will be held in the Yard directly after the Stadium exercises. All space given over to the spreads is allotted by the Committee, and applications for places in which to hold spreads must be handed into the mailbox outside Grays 23 before May 1. In so far as is possible, the same spaces will be given to clubs and organizations which they had last year...
...smaller mind turns in need to the dictionary. There are 2559 words between "W" and "Wash", and 6220 through only half the "U's" a rich supply with only a few in use. A little digging has given us, for example, "peduncles" in a press despatch referring to the space between two semi-circles side by side. A popular novelist unearthed "carapace" to give us one more synonym for "shell". Kipling, Conrad, and Meredith knew the value of the "mot juste" and have forced their readers to learn the value of the dictionary. When one starts out to enrich...
...Grand Central Station Art Gallery, well lighted, planned, and furnished, and with the largest sales gallery floor-space in the world (15,000 square feet), opened March 21. As most of the Press remarked, a new situation thence arises in the life of the commuter, whereby the race for the smoking car may be to the swift, but the Sargent to the slow...