Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who are beginning to put on their lean and slippered pantaloons, for those still full of wise saws and modern instances, Mr. Barry has written a book reanimating the great politicians of their younger days. It is a wandering book digressing confoundedly. The greater part of its space and the better part of its piquancy are allotted to the first two of the four decades in review. McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson pass through with dignified despatch at the end. Perhaps too many of the dramatis personae of the later acts are still living, for Mr. Barry to tell...
...they have been allowed or even encouraged to believe perversions of the truth is becoming increasingly evident. One great Metropolitan daily goes to the extent of having a regular department devoted, when necessary, to a correction of unintentional errors. Although it is too much to hope that a short space of five years will see a complete change in the public taste it is distinctly encouraging to find that truth and accuracy are almost as much in demand now as in the Washingtonian past...
...Administration building has on the first floor, the Dean's office, offices for the five assistant deans, conference rooms, information desk office of the registrar, offices for secretaries and clerical workers, and a large room divided into twenty compartments for readers of the students' reports, as well as space for fifty stenographers and typists. On the second and third floors are large spaces to be developed as the requirements demand, into compartments for teaching marketing, industrial management, accounting, finance, statistics and other subjects...
...Recreation Building at the other end of the quadrangle from the Auditorium, is the social center of the Business School. On the first floor will be a large lobby, grill room and lounge. On the second floor, a large space has been provided which will be cut up into meeting rooms and club rooms. In this building twenty squash courts are also provided with the necessary lockers, and showers in the basement. As exercise plays such an important part in the life of a man taking intensive training, much emphasis has been put on his physical fitness...
...report submitted by the Dawes Committee to the Reparations Committee contained 44,000 words-a sizable book.* In the space of nine hours every word was transmitted from Paris to the Associated Press, Manhattan. Within 24 hours it was delivered, complete, to six American newspapers, viz.: The New York Times, The New York Herald-Tribune, The New York World, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the Washington Post, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat...