Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thank you muchly for devoting, in TIME, Dec. 20 more space to me and my writings than to any other individual or subject. The phenomenal success of TIME is to be attributed to its editors' admirable sense of judgment and proportion...
...heard of the matter. The New York Central had long done considerable business through the Union Trust Co., so President Smith rushed to Cleveland, angry. Nickel Plate President Bernet did not contend with New York Central President Smith. They shared. President Bernet's removal to the Erie leaves space for the promotion of Walter L. Ross to the presidency of the Nickel Plate. He has been senior vice president...
...Lithuanta, according to the latest reports, which are very brief and say only that General Smetons, supported by the Army, has taken over the Government, and thrown its former members into jail. Yet this item has a prominent place on the front page of the papers, taking the space temporarily deserted by the intrigues of the Roumanian Government and the illness of their King...
...this point Horace Imber, advertising manager of the Daily Mail from 1912 to 1921 testified instructively: "Lord Northcliffe had the unbusinesslike policy of running a newspaper for the sake of news and not primarily for what he could gain from advertisers.... He maintained a fixed subordination of advertising space to news space.... When Lord Rothermere took control the space given to advertising was increased and much news was crowded out.... That was business. I do not echo Lord Rothermere's admirers in calling it genius...
...probity of open-space fiction today is truly magnificent. Author Kyne clearly states that this book's supply of moonshine, necessary for comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...