Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arguments for constructing an entirely new dining hall. The influx of eight hundred Freshmen to the Union three times a day would tend, even without the exclusion of other men, to change it into a more or less completely Freshman Club; and the quantity of recreational space, even in a reconstructed building, argues that one group will be submerged by the other...
...Riemann metric subdivides time, space, undulations, tensions and the other simplest phenomena of the world. By multiplying that unit as though it were (crudely) pounds, gives the force of gravity between, say, the earth and the man or egg falling from the airplane. Gravity is thus not unique as Newton believed. It is a part of the world's pervasive unity. Again Dr. Einstein's suspicion brought him to perception. This...
...genius. Interest is in trends and tendencies rather than transcendent individuals. The last National Academy show was ponderously conventional (TIME, Dec. 17). At the 124th annual Pennsylvania Academy exhibition, opened last week, the advanced group was more numerous than in Manhattan, but the squatting conservatives still dominated the wall space...
...would seem that you could well afford to give plenty of space to writing up the rise in the wrestling game of this most worthy young man with whom I am proud to be acquainted. I am only one of a great many who would consider him to be one of the cleanest-cut athletes and also most affable gentlemen who ever entered the sporting world in any of its branches. "Doc" HEWETT...
...Havemeyer died. To the Metropolitan Museum (which now lacks the space properly to exhibit the works) were bequeathed all objects in the collection except Persian potteries which were given to her son, Horace Have meyer. It was stipulated that the collection be kept otherwise intact, dedicated to the memory of her late husband. The gift was a final gesture, concluding a series of anonymous flourishes. Frequently in the past Mrs. Havemeyer gave or loaned pieces from her collections, always, how ever, with the stipulation that her name be not mentioned...