Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Approximately 870 people will attend the Junior Dance which will be held Friday evening in Memorial Hall. Of this number 704 will occupy the 51 boxes which will fill all the available space around the walls of the main hall and in the balconies, while the 56 couples who did not apply for seats in a box will be given chairs in two of the small rooms adjoining the hall...
...each conducted by a specialist on the subject. News from every noteworthy newspaper and magazine in the world will be collected and put into brief readable paragraphs, which will record only significant facts. Most of the articles will be short, though big events involving many facts will occupy more space...
...shall economize space and time by stating a few facts: the editors and all the contributors to this book were members of the Poetry Society. All were editors of the "Advocate" but one, and he was a frequent contributor. Several were officers in one or other of the organizations. Is it likely that better poets were consciously omitted? when it took fifteen months to bring the volume to its final form, when every poem published by undergraduates since 1916 was examined, and when at least twelve poets and not fewer than two hundred poems were seriously considered...
When demon doctors and medicine men of the past succeeded in producing rain in the space of a week they were highly esteemed, and considered as ornaments to their profession. But even the most sanguine of them did not expect to have their prayers answered in ten minutes--unless, perhaps, they had previously noticed a thunder-cloud gathering on the horizon. In the future, however, "rainstorms to order" will be regarded as commonplace...
...necessary function of society. The question of who is right or wrong in the New York controversy is of minor importance. The mere fact that so much popular interest has been roused, and that the newspapers have found it worth their while to give it so much space, is the most encouraging evidence that the public is still awake to religion...