Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would perform a public service if you would devote space to debunking the myth that it is a crime against the Federal law to issue a check for less than one dollar (TIME, July...
...health of the prisoners has been excellent, especially when one takes into consideration the overcrowded condition of the Institution. At one time we had as high as 500 men sleeping in the corridors . . . after all cell and dormitory space had been filled. . . .";?Report of the warden of the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., July...
There were discomforts aboard?pro-hibition against smoking because of the inflammable hydrogen which kept the Graf Zeppelin afloat, restricted space for exercise, the petty distraction of cards and parlor games. An indication of the passengers' boredom was their excitement at seeing a pair of whales. After two or three days in Lakehurst the Graf Zeppelin was to return to Germany and thence continue on for a world flight by way of Tokyo, Los Angeles, Lakehurst (again) to Friedrichshafen (again). On the Pacific leg she will fly cautiously near land, north up the Japanese coast, then eastward along the Aleutian...
...Work is force acting through space. Energy is capability of doing work. Power is the time rate of doing work. Work is lifting 50 pounds to a table three feet high, exerting 150 foot pounds. You increase the energy of the weight by the process, adding 150 foot pounds to it. If you do it in ten seconds you exert a power of 15 foot pounds per second. Weight is the force by which the earth attracts a body, and is variable. Mass is a measure of inertia and does not vary. Energy is force multiplied by distance. A body...
...shooting star; a mass of matter from celestial space striking the earth's atmosphere and bursting into flame...