Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...space for parking automobiles during football games at the Stadium has been made ready directly back of the Business School, across the street from the Stadium gates, according to an announcement by Howard Parker '99, Business Manager of the H. A. A. The space is bounded by North Harvard Street and Western Avenue, and can accommodate 2000 cars...
Whereas in the past, students were allowed to take the books to any part of the room, now they will have to seek their knowledge in a restricted space under the watchful eye of the librarian...
...politician he is of no account. His lack of authority is such that one marvels how the Sphere, a responsible publication, if a periodical de luxe, has found space for this scurrilous travesty of a country whose dynasty is closely related to that of Great Britain, whose governments, even during the most trying period of the Great War, behaved loyally and nobly to your nation, whose people are as sincerely attached to yours as any on earth...
...primeval sunset, the hungry chisels of rain and wind and river; these are the paraphernalia of geology, the most spectacular, if the most inexact of sciences. Most laymen have no notion of its reaches, beyond a superficial jargon, culled from newssheets, of meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles above the equator is colder than that ten miles above the arctic circle; rainbows are round, so that no fossil-picks are required to apprehend them...
...spots of the city and to experiment in the naive taxi rates in Boston, a system which has its basis on the theories that every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars and lessen the distance in space, and that the longest way round is the shortest way home. for the pedestrian--for who is not? there is always the river. Follow the river, says the oldest settler, and one can't go wrong. Such may be the case but neither can one arrive at any definitely placed...