Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curt announcement contained in last evenings' papers that all invasions of foreign stars to this country and similar trips abroad would be barred by the American Athletic Union during the coming year was worthy of more news space...
...What Of It?" The same title might aptly be applied to the above journalistic summary of any man's weakness and woman's integrity. As merely frivolous fancies of average minds such analysis of social problems are, if not welcome, at least endurable. Their greatest service is to fill space which would otherwise be either empty or devoted to some less innocuous article. They have no possible value to any except, perhaps, as a starting point for conversation; and it is questionable whether or not they even have any news interest. Nevertheless they form a goodly part of the daily...
Even my son, who is only a High School kid, objects to your wasting editorial space in this furthering your own business. So does my wife, who with me brings the more mature judgment of 40 into her condemnation of your idea...
...have all enjoyed your publication from one end to the other, even to those gruesome little miscellanies. But we don't like to see you waste editorial space and all three of us have voted against sending in the questions. That is why you will get no information from...
...other words, to regard him as a brick in the structure of things rather than as a human being. Both these books are written with the second purpose. To Mr. Bradford, Darwin is the work he did; to M. Clemenceau, Demosthenes' personality is not worth a tenth the space demanded by his significance in world history...