Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of the evils of college football can be laid to the newspapers which magnify the sport and deify the players beyond all reason. A Los Angeles newspaper proclaimed Harvard's recent imbroglio in three inch headlines across the front page of an edition on green paper. The whole space in four representative Boston papers devoted to the really great innovation in education of which the Overseers approved a week ago would probably not aggregate a column--certainly...
...notoriously easy to make and do not count for much in themselves. What is far more important at present than the relative merits of the two proposals, upon which no judgment can fairly be pronounced so early, is the incidental publicity which they will afford to collegiate debating. Space, headlines, discussion, all these are blessings which will give no negligible impetus to a languishing...
...situation now stands with Sculptor Brancusi paying government duty on his "articles" labeled NOT ART at the prices they fetched as Art. Paul Morand, French writer, said of one of the disputed pieces, "Bird in Flight": "His birds sing and fly through space." Honest Inspector Kracke said, "I was told that the question was controversial. That, of course, made me take the situation all the universe...
Female modern apartment denizens, as crowded for space as birds in a cage, viewed with delight a new style of furniture brought forth last week by artists at the Art Centre, 56th St., Manhattan. Artists, although all the word knows them to be useless, sometimes have fantastically practical ideas...
...Advocate parrot will be enclosed in a gilded cage of the finest quality obtainable, from which vantage point he will lavish profanity and witty sayings upon the Board, and it is expected that he may even dictate printable prose and poetry worthy of being given space in the columns of the magazine...