Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...This set of Shakespere is a stunner. (I looked at the volumes; they were uncut, and Othello was standing on his head; I sympathetically put him on his feet) "And this set of Marryat's works looks very well on the shelves." (The books certainly did encumber enough space for Thackeray and Jane Austen's works and looked as if they at least had been read.) And so he went on. He had already "ragged" a sign, bearing the inscription "Harvard Laundry," which brilliant witticism he intended to hang over his mantel...
...Commencement exercises at Wellesley College yesterday were highly satisfactory, and worthy of the ladies who took part. The Crimson is very happy to give selections from such creditable performances, and is sorry not to be able to insert the whole, from want of space...
...elastic nature of the company fits them admirably for travelling, as may be seen in the account of the arrangement of the "reception-room." This room is twenty-eight feet long, and contains sleeping accommodations for forty. Thus each artist must rest from his professional labors in a space about eight inches in breadth by eight and one half feet in length. They must be very unlike the dog in the riddle, who was let out at night and taken in in the morning...
...request of the two captains, the citizens agreed to make the boat-houses water-tight, a quality they did not possess last year. They also agreed that the space below the finish line should be unobstructed for one quarter-mile, and be patrolled by police-boats, and that the course should be buoyed by yawls anchored half a mile apart, each boat flying a red flag from a staff twenty feet high. Last year the buoys were so small as to be almost invisible to coxswains, and therefore valueless as guides. The first-mentioned method of buoying would distinctly mark...
...plenty of time and space, we would like to pick up the gauntlet thrown down to us by the Oberlin Review. We would like to comment on the extreme weight of its articles (O Heavens! how heavy they were); to praise the judicious arrangement of the paper, putting its best column (the Exchanges) near the beginning; to - But really we have n't any more time to waste on this sheet of "Our Boys and Girls...