Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME as long as it does what it is supposed to do. I welcome ads, even, as long as they interest me. But I don't welcome your high-handed use of space...
...wife and I have come to a conclusion that you who run this TIME must be either too fresh or awfully crazy, to waste all that space asking useless questions about who reads a magazine, as if you really cared. You ask questions in absurd ways we think too. Who ever called his children "Males from 10 to 20" or "Females" ? What do you care how many automobiles I got ? I bought your magazine, didn't I and that should be enough...
...among the five magazines we receive because it never wasted a word. Now you seriously threaten your own position in this home at least by devoting five whole columns to an advertisement (?) of your own. You are still favored, but we must warn you that further wastes of good space such as this will lower your rating...
...that it may be possible that some day electric waves may be used for the transmission of power over moderate distances, if we succeed in perfecting devices for projecting the waves in parallel beams in such a manner as to minimize dispersion of the energy into space.' As all my auditors knew, I had already perfected such beam-projection for directive radio communication. Last fortnight I received a postoffice certificate for shortwave 'beam' stations connecting England and Canada (TIME...
...Drifter, author of acid comments published weekly in the Nation, has made out a ledger sheet for the sings and saving graces of these United States. He lists forty six assets and sixty four liabilities and hints that had he not been hampered by limitations of space be could have gone on with the latter indefinitely; the credit column is, he regrets, practically complete. Among the assets are found such peculiarly. American contributions to world contentment as bathrooms, the New York theatre, bobbed hair, rebellious undergraduates, one piece bathing suits, Beacon Bill on Christmas Eve, and the Marx brothers...