Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Britain, while continuing to administer the colonies and the foreign policy of the Empire must now do so in concert with the Dominions, and not with her onetime parental status as "The Mother Country." Clearly these formulae are intentionally so loose and general as to leave enough space in Mother England's cupboard for much harmless rattling of the skeleton called "Treason to the King...
...color in the finished film. It is a pattern of various degrees of transparency and opaqueness. If run off in an ordinary projector, it would throw the ordinary black and white picture on the screen. But if the color filter is inserted, each minute transparent or opaque space on the film will be directed by the microscopic lenses through its own section of the color filter; falling upon the screen in its original color; producing the colored moving picture. The guests listened, looked, lauded Kodakman Eastman...
Marshall Field & Co. (wholesale) has announced plans for a Merchandise Mart, with space for other merchants, to be erected along the Chicago River and partly in the air rights of the Chicago & North Western Railway. The height will only be some 20 stories, but the mart will contain 4,000,000 sq. ft. (about 92 acres) of floor space. The architects are Graham, Anderson Probst & White. The name of Builder-Architect Ernest Robert Graham assures distinction-distinction dating back to the magnificent Chicago World's Fair, through the unprecedented Flatiron Building in Manhattan, to railroad stations, museums and skyscrapers...
...schlager, 41, who had created Roxy's cinema cathedral in Manhattan, apparently out of golden dough. They would show Chicago something to write postcards about-the largest and tallest building in the world-75 stories and 845 feet high . . . containing 4,650,000 sq. ft. of floor space . . . costing $45,000.000 . . . covering two blocks with its base . . . comprising a 23 story "apparel-mart" near the ground . . . above that 22 stories of office space . . . above that a 1,000 room hotel ... a garage containing space for 1,200 cars ... a railroad station under the ground . . . swimming pool, auditoriums, restaurants, shops...
...feet. In the last third of a mile, crew races are decided and in that stretch California and Columbia fenced with each other. They went under the bridge and out of sight. When they came out, California was leading by a quarter of a length. Slowly the space became almost a length and suddenly the sirens of the observation boats blew for the finish. California's time lowered by 17 seconds a record that had stood for 27 years...