Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusive are these figures to "an American" that, last week, potent H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S. founder-owner of London's first and greatest "department store," promptly ordered extra advertising space in leading English dailies, commenced to "boom" and "sell" the tunnel idea...
...first place, here as well as at Harvard there is an ever increasing demand for more adequate dormitory space, for the practice of housing a large portion of the Freshman class in boarding houses about town should by now have about run its course. There is the need also of more comfortable dining rooms for everyone which could be supplied by their installation in any dormitories that Yale may build in the future. The establishment of the House system at Yale in the form of small quadrangles will in this respect come into violent conflict with the present social system...
...cramped and insufficient space to which our very excellent library was confined has been nearly doubled by the removal of partitions and the addition to it of considerable adjoining space. Adequate lighting, seats, and tables, are being provided and will permit us to extend the privilege of access to the stacks to graduate students as well as to the officers of the institution. Provision has been made for the casing necessary to the development of the synoptic collections. Telephonic facilities have been increased. Bids for installation of an elevator have been called for, and its installation will remove...
...most obvious obstacles to the plan is the difference in the space between Mount Auburn Street and the Freshman Halls and the Stretch between Dunster and DeWolf Streets. The much greater length than breadth of the section is a serious problem especially as regards the more-crowded western side of the proposed rectangular Yard. Any adjustment, however, which would save the empty plot behind Gore would establish a basic formula for future progress, rapid or leisurely, toward a Yard of insured openness...
...means of the Harvard photographs, certain comprehensive investigations have been undertaken here, which cannot at present be duplicated at any other Observatory. There is space to speak of two such problems; a survey of the whole sky for the discovery and study of variable stars, and for the classification of stars by means of their spectra...