Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowed space to suggest that your editorial, holding up to opprobrious ridicule not only the person but the office of the chief executive of the United States, was not only in decidedly poor taste, and un-American, but also very unlike the Harvard spirit. It will be resented by many who, though perhaps disagreeing with the appropriateness of the ban on a sumptuous inauguration (not "the coronation of the Peepul's annointed"), nevertheless see in his action the conscientious endeavor to put into practice the principles he advocates. J. S. Robinson...
...these and many others, which I have not space to mention, are the advantages of the CRIMSON competitions. There seem to be no disadvantages. My final word would be to think of the careers of A. B. Houghton, recently appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, of Franklin D. Roosevelt, of Thomas Lamont, one of the foremost financiers of the day, and of a dozen others, all of whom have been members of the CRIMSON, and do likewise...
...unusual happenings of an unusual gathering, perhaps the most appealing to the sense of incongruity was the meeting (they did not actually meet) of H. L. Mencken and Stuart Pratt Sherman. These pen-enemies were in the same room, guests of the same host. Within the space of ten minutes I had talked with them both and was struck with the fact that Mencken the writer corresponds to Sherman the man, and vice versa. Mencken has the almost perfect social sense. The editor of The American Mercury is stalwart, hearty, genial, lovable. He is so entirely forthright that...
...Moon, the Earth, traveling in their accustomed courses came, for a brief space of time, into a straight line. The Moon, being the middle member of the three, shielded parts of the Earth from the Sun's rays. Then the three moved out of line and the eclipse had passed...
Distance and space might be raised as objections to this scheme. But even these might be easier task-masters than brutal Britain. At least, it would be a fine thing for Harvard to make such an offer. It would be for God, for Liberty, and for Ireland...