Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waste valuable space in your columns publishing such vapid letters as that of Charles A. Boston [TIME, June 6], who wishes to create the impression that he is so busy that he cannot stop occasionally to read something that will keep him abreast of the times. That doesn't interest your readers. He must have been the man, a friend of whom wanted to give him a book for a birthday gift, hearing of which another friend said: No, don't give him a book...
...give valuable space in your worthy publication to such stuff as "Again, Altman"? The list of Bible chapters recommended by him for study condemns him as nothing else could. People are judged by the company they keep (human or literary). That regular HE-men can be Christian Gentlemen is strongly illustrated in the lives of Generals Foch, Pershing, Summerall, Lejeune, and many others...
...necessary to give piquancy to the romance involved. The tale might be likened to a poplar with its clinging shoots, where it could have been made an oak with spreading branches. The teller has rather sought to show how marvellously romance, like a flag-pole, can cleave space than bow completely life can fulfill, clothe, and likewise protect itself, with fit and simple foliage...
...fame. The President off for his summer vacation in the Black Hills was given a column on the first page of the second section of so sedate and well-balanced a paper as the New York Times, while Colonel Lindberg in his journey up Broadway received all the space, except the unprinted margins, in the first five pages of the same issue...
Porter. New York Central officials deny that there is any distinction between Century sections. There is, they say, no "first," no "last," save as the trains are spaced a block* or two apart on the runs. Nevertheless, should Calvin Coolidge or George V or Charles Augustus Lindbergh signify a desire to travel as a private citizen (i. e. not in a private car) between Chicago and Manhattan, he would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended...