Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Harlow Shapley of the Astronomy Department will give the second of his eight lectures in the Lowell Institute series at Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, at 8 o'clock this evening. The subject of his lecture will be "Space, Time and Starlight". The course will treat different phases of modern astronomy and will be open to the public free of charge. Tickets may be obtained at the Hall before the lecture this evening...
...This Side of Paradise", there was a great hue and cry; when "Flappers and Philosophers" appeared, there was still a hue, and somewhat less of a cry; "The Beautiful and Damned" evoked merely a cry;--the best comment on "Tales of the Jazz Age" is dead silence. However, this space must be filled, and a reviewer cannot write, like Hilaire Belloc, on "Nothing". But we will be brief. Perpend...
...could not restrain us, while we were reading the "Tales", from entertaining an almost irresistible impulse to give the author a sound paddling and send him off to bed. If he were not so blatantly precocious, so proudly puerile and so egotistically devilish, he might be bearable for the space of an hour. But he is--and consequently...
...three celebrities mentioned above. His comments, to be sure, arouse an interest in those who read them to know the name of the author; but the interest is one not skin to admiration and usually find, expression in somewhat vigorous language. This though a third marginal commentator finds the space to add: "Crude but Correct...
...third resource, if the assigned reading is in an English course, is the Farnsworth-room. But somebody is before him. The whole class knows the exact position of the book on the Farnsworth shelves and the Average Member gazes at the empty space where it belongs...