Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Triangle Club, we have the basis for such an organization high here in the University. The Harvard Dramatic Club does in a less efficient manner and shorter space of time exactly what the Triangle Club does at Princeton. The reason it has not gone on tour is that it is a smaller group of men and unlike the Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta, it seeks to run on a profit and loss basis...
There are other good things in the number, including a burlesque Crimson editorial on which I should not dare to comment in these columns. But space is too brief to tell about Sherwood's verses and Powel's "Valentine" and the rest. Perhaps you'd better just run out and buy a copy and see for yourself...
...When news got about that some port had a lot of freight several ships would race for it. And if any ship looked in at a harbor where some unfortunate producer had perishable freight at the water front, some rascally officer might decline to take it, alleging lack of space, and then purchase the goods at bargain prices when the frantic owner tried to realize something rather than see his property rot on his hands. Ships were so unsanitary that it was an absolute menace to health to travel on them; and owing to lack of schedules, merchants and other...
...failure in any particular, these fines being deducted from the subsidy. And if any ship refused freight at any port the owner had to call this fact to the attention of the government inspector by cable, if necessary to the next port, and if the inspector found any unused space on the ship, the ship owners were fined an amount equal to twice the freight rate for the cargo refused, the money go received being payable to the aggrieved shipper...
Considerably less satisfactory is the story, "The Thing He Never Knew." A situation, not altogether unpromising as short story material, the denouement of which requires motivation, is disposed of in wholly inadequate space with consequent cheapening of effect,--and effect which the style, unfortunately, is too conventional to alleviate. Mr. Rodgers's "Chowder," the sprightly sketch which follows, is more pleasing...