Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that Harvard will profit most by the exchange of men. When Mr. Leys was here, he had a representative group for tutorial work and conducted a course in modern English history. His work was the same as the other men in the department, and for a space of three months he became a Harvard tutor, studying the American tutorial method...
...chastisement is not the only thing to be derived from the page. There is also a lesson in unadulterated charity, which perhaps passes unnoticed. This year is the twelfth year in which the New York Times has carried on its Christmas campaign for the poor. It has devoted editorial space and news space daily to booming this charity drive; it has financed the work of looking up many of the cases, of keeping the books, of distributing the benefits, while in material returns it gains nothing. It has so increased subscriptions that since 1916 it has been able to give...
...less masterly, and the men and women described are so wholly alive that they haunt the mind. Peyrol himself deserves a place beside Lingard and Heyst and the other great wanderers, and throughout the pages of The Rover, Mr. Conrad gives us anew that impression of space and completion that is stamped upon all his best work-the impression that he has not merely written a novel, but created a world...
Apart from the considerations of health and income, however, there is a growing demand among women for birth control to enable them to space the number of children they desire at such intervals as will make life more livable and make possible better care of the fewer children. An exhaustive scientific study of the sex life of 1,000 normal and well- educated married women, made by Dr. Katharine B. Davis, of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, revealed the fact that 74% used contraceptive methods themselves and gave their approval to them. Economic and health reasons, and desire...
...Millikan sent up kites, sometimes as high as ten miles, with automatic machines attached which detected rays more powerful even than the X-rays or the "gamma" rays of radium. These rays did not come from the sun, because they were active night and day. Apparently they came from space, and may be the exciting cause of all radioactivity...