Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room in the evening. Its shelves are already two-thirds full and there is a fund with which books are carefully being bought. There are three book plates being used, one for books given by Dean Greenought, another for books given by friends, and one with a black space in which to place a donor's name. Freshman can take books from this room at night and return them at 11 o'clock in the morning. The attendance averages about 54 students a day and has shown a already increase...
...BLUES FOR PAPA AND MAMA BERLIN," "BERLIN GOES WET" said New York picture captions. Irving Berlin, singing waitter and song writer, captured fat headline space when he ran off with Ellin Mackay, daugher of the Clarence Mackay who runs the Postal Telegraph. The occasion: the first picture since the preciptous honeymoon. The "papa and mama": a coy reference to their baby daughter. The "wet": Composer Berlin entering the surf at Palm Beach...
Asked concerning the possibilities of the broadcasting of moving pictures through space, Professor Chaffee said, "Anything that can be sent over wire can be broadcasted on the radio. It is improbable, but highly conceivable, that in a decade or two, some of the wealthiest people of the country will view motion pictures in their own living rooms. However, the expense of the apparatus will exclude most of the population from this luxury
Cezanne's paintings develop under the eye almost as a picture takes its shape in the photographers dark room. They are rarely taken at a glance on first acquaintance. The landscape (in a literal sense) unfolds hit by bit, objects take their place in space in the inter space relation within the picture,--the tree in the foreground grows in convincing reality by which we look to the distant hill; suddenly the thing is formed, we see it clearly. The picture remains a picture but just as in actuallity the certainty of the relative fixation of objects is convincing...
Three months ago he bought the building at Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street, Manhattan, in which the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-operative Trust Co. occupied ground floor space. They vacated, leaving to Mr. Loft fine banking fixtures worth $150,000. When salvaging junkmen offered him only $25,000 for all the equipment, he decided that for such an amount he might well play as a neighborhood banker himself. His bank, created last week, has capital of $750,000, surplus of $250,000; is named Emerald National Bank & Trust...