Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the graduate departments are badly crowded. The Business School in particular has been holding its classes in cellar and garret, and has had to limit its enrollment because it simply could not find space enough in which to teach all the men who were qualified to enter the School. A Business School building, or group of buildings, would not be a luxury; it is, or will soon be, a necessity...
...wait of two triple-space minutes while the announcer winds his watch. Then he steps forward. There is a noisy hush...
...ideal himself with whom he is not fully acquainted--or at least whom he is reticent about letting anyone but himself know intimately. The irony, too, which he attempts to put into the later parts of the book, is anything but convincing, and at some places where much space is used in talking about the grim humor if life, a somewhat boring result is unfortunately obtained. But the author is young, and we are inclined to doubt if any young person has a true comprehension of irony. There must be such a thing because we hear of it so often...
Owing to the large demand for handball courts it has been necessary to institute a regular signing up system while a large track squad still further crowds the available space...
...under the guidance of its present owner, at least) rattled on any highway beyond walking distance of Cambridge, will find itself drawn into the stream of vehicles headed westward on the fourth of November. Some of us will reserve our favorite Boston taxi, and auction off cubic feet of space in it to the highest bidder as long as there is space left. Others have already ordered our town cars to be boxed up and shipped from Chicago, Philadelphia or New York before the freight trains stop running. . . . But we'll be there, one and all--whether by ox-cart...