Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Realizing the magnitude of this problem, the Messrs. Houghton invited such men as Dr. E. C. Sullivan and Dr. Arthur L. Day to join them. However, space is too limited to describe how their task was accomplished, but if it had not been for their persistent efforts in improving the production of lamp bulbs in quantity as well as in quality, the incandescent lamp of today would not be such a cheap and perfect article, nor would it be used in such tremendous quantities. F. KRAISSL Corning...
...walked his Chow dog Chung along the Olympic's promenade deck, puffed his underslung pipe. He was satisfied. Everything had been precise, prompt-his conference with the Secretary of State, his last talk with the President, his packing, his sailing. He had telegraphed to London asking the exact space allowance for bookcases in the U. S. Embassy, had promptly received statistics. Needing a private secretary, he had offered the diplomatic opportunity to rugged Nephew Henry Dawes. one year out of Williams College, oil company clerk in Columbus, Ohio. Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest of all was Oxford...
England's august Manchester Guardian has flatly called this German work "the greatest of all war books.' It moves in space, not in time. The interest of the scene completely dwarfs the interest of the story...
...Chicago's Randolph Street. Foreign features-Siamese dancing, marionettes from Java-will be exhibited by natives in the native fashion, not vaudevillized or adapted to U. S. taste. Mr. Geddes is going to suggest an island supper club, in which the dance floor is separated from the dining space by tiny canals. He will propose an open air cabaret which has permanent runways, like hollow walls, winding among the tables. The performers will dance and sing above. The waiters will scurry through the hollows below. The plans of a Geddes sea food restaurant show floor, walls and ceiling...
...Henry used the trolley cars to go to the factory leaving the sedan for Aurelia. Almost every morning she drove down town, left the car in a hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the way. In the store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley...