Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Primo de Rivera (TIME, Sept. 13) was held last week but voting was slow and delay ensued in counting the ballots. The "plebiscite" turned out to be a solemn farce in which all who approved the Dictatorship were permitted to register their approval while those contrarily minded found no space upon the ballots for negative votes...
While the narrow streets and peaked-roofed buildings of Old Leipzig were crammed all week with fair goods, there was space and leisure in the sumptuous modern quarter for the pulse of cosmopolitan life that beats nowhere more strongly than in Leipzig at fair time. It is well said that "Leipzig is the only German city"- the only city in which Germans lay aside their individual nationalities as Prussians, Hessians, Bavarians, Saxons, Swabians or what...
Largesse In the Prince of Wales suite on board the Cunarder Berengaria, Sanders A. Wertheim, president of Burns Brothers, coal dealers, heard the stewards bawling: "All ashore that's going ashore." His cabin, the most expensive space the Cunard line can sell on any of its ships, was littered with candy, flowers, books, tokens of goodwill left by the employes who had come down to see him off. Now these employes were hurrying down the gangplank. Sanders Wertheim could see them beaming at him, packed inside a rope on the pier. Ah, for a gesture, a gesture proper...
...Venus, having maddened or blessed some hot Italian poet, some Indian rajah or swart Turk, makes her swift progress from the harem or a Paris divorce court to U. S. breakfast tables. None knew better how religion might be jostled by Mammon, despatches from an ecumenical council vying for space with the details of a petroleum coup or soap king's testament. Mars, the god who more than any other has the power to forge huge newspaper circulations (the Spanish-American war "made" the New York Journal-TIME, Aug. 16), is revered and propitiated by editors everywhere. Nevertheless...
Below, cities and countryside became indistinguishable. The earth looked "dull-colored, concave, saucer-like." Mist intervened and the plane droned up, isolated in boundless space. At 4,500 metres, Pilot Callizo clapped an oxygen tube to his mouth, fed his motor the same combustion-sustaining gas. At 11,500 metres the mer cury of his thermometer vanished from sight at 58° below zero...