Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That evening as 8 o'clock approached, the space around the speaking-stand rapidly filled. There were seats for 200 reporters and, on the platform, chairs were provided for the 100 members of the National Committee...
...possible that they would be forced to the truly terrible non-stop flight of 1,000 miles from Reykjavik direct to Ivigtut right across Greenland's icy mountains. In the cruiser Raleigh, however, Rear-Adm. T. P. Magruder searched the southern shores of Greenland for an open space; it was also possible that Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Quest, might be used as an icebreaker. There still remained the alternative of breaking the flight from Reykjavik by refueling in the open sea- none too pleasant to contemplate in these rough waters...
Using figures that curled into space like the tail of the mouse in Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Henry Pratt Fairchild, social economist of New York University, speculated with his hearers upon the world's population at the end of the 20th Century, at the end of 100 centuries...
...when Harry J. Luce, President of Maillard, Inc., (euphemism for a restaurant at which the privileged few can toy with a few dainties at an an exclusive price) "discovered Chicago" and forthwith leased 20,000 square feet of floor space in the Straus Building, the Chicago Tribune, which as everyone knows is the "world's greatest newspaper," splurged for a whole column...
...simple story was that Mr. Luce desired the floor space for a new restaurant which is to cater to Chicago's fastidious few. The Tribune must have more "kick," so it vapored about "a few daring New Yorkers" venturing into the "far West," discovering Chicago and telling their friends about it. Mr. Luce had been told by "some such explorer" that Chicago existed, but he had been cold to his informer; for he remembered that "a fourth cousin of his on a western hunting trip" had sent him a postcard of the place...