Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governors pondered. By admitting foreign stocks for listing under stringent Exchange rules, most of these problems would be solved. The Exchange could handle them, because it intends to increase its floor space by onefourth; and the members are eager for them, because they would increase exchange transactions by $1,000,000,000 yearly, yielding large brokerage fees...
...bugaboos which are our modern dragons and goblins, upon the individual, has become immense. That the Verlaine of absinthe and pomegranites should make a pilgrimage to the Holy City cannot seem entirely unrelated to the somewhat sordid suicide of four promising American undergraduates within the space of a few weeks. The only explanation that is sufficiently vague to be true is that of failure to adapt oneself to an inevitable, remorseless environment, an environment of natural hardship and of social horror. The biologist would claim it to be the elimination of the unfit in the struggle for existence...
...hitch on to a rowboat, to oil engines big enough to drive a yacht. All week spectators gathered around the booth wherein, upon an altar, rested a Cummins Diesel engine. This engine used cheap fuel oil instead of gasoline, starts instantly from stone cold, "takes up no more space than a heavy-duty gasoline engine." Big Diesel engines are used to drive ocean liners...
...work is indeed limited to the directions and angles of a single right triangle, since the reciprocals to the diagonals are at right angles to them. Far from limiting the possibilities of the work, this method adds immeasurably to the possibilities of design. A strict symmetry in space relations is to be found in the heads reproduced on this page, and it is safe to say that it could hardly have been achieved without some such underlying principle of design as that which Mr. Giles has used...
...first building of the group will be slightly over 300 feet long and will fill up practically all the space between the University Museum and the New Lecture Hall. The main section of this structure will face Oxford Street and will be about 50 feet thick, with two wings of different lengths running back from it toward Frisbie Place and the second building. The longer of these wings is to be about 84 feet long, not inclusive of the width of the main building...