Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None of the young men, it is probable, produced any literature within the same space of time allowed for the examination. For any of them to have done so would have been so phenomenal as to upset the assumptions under which the test was planned in the first instance. For that matter, if Yale and Harvard could at will turn out young men prepared to produce literature on short notice the whole prestige of literature as a rare art would be gone. Pallas News
Throughout the war Lincoln danced from one position to another. Want of space prevents the mention of but two notorious instances of his instability. He decided to issue a proclamation of emancipation in July, 1863, but when Seward showed him its impropriety at the time, he admitted his error, pocketed his paper and for months later talked on both sides of the question. He at first decided to write a paper justifying the action of Captain Wilkes in seizing the Confederate Commissioners from the British steam packet Trent, but shortly joined with his Cabinet in making a humiliating apology...
...editors believed, and rightly, as events proved--that the suggestion of censorship or suppression would increase their sales. Accordingly the paper was printed with one corner perfectly blank and with a similar blank space taking up about one-third of the editorial column. These blanks were then painstakingly cut out by members of the staff and it was whispered that I had suppressed an offensive story and editorial. The paper "sold like wildfire" and its appearance was followed by visits to the printer in search of the missing portions, offers of high prices for "unexpurgated" copies--as much...
...recommendations of the Board of Overseers embodied, it is believed, a proposal to remedy the present limited seating capacity of the Stadium by the use of portable steel stands, which would fill in the space at the end of the Stadium which was formerly occupied by the wooden stands. These stands might be employed also at the Yale baseball game...
Boxes and tables are to be placed outside around the dancing space in the Delta, at which groups of from two to eight couples will be accomodated. Two boxes and six tables will be reserved for the patronesses...