Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judged from the fact that whereas ordinarily the shore of the River is about four and a half miles from the Levee, the water had risen to such an extent that it was within four feet of the top of the Levee. This means that all over this wide space of ground the water was from ten to twenty feet deep over around which is ordinarily used for grazing purposes. North and South this situation exists for several hundred miles...
Many people should remain childless because of hereditary predisposition to disease or abnormality. Healthy mothers should space their children properly for their own good and that of their offspring. On this point we may listen to Dr. W. A. Pusey, President of the American Medical Association: "It is women that bear the penalties in injury, disease, and death, and mental torture that are involved in unlimited child-bearing. They have a right to know how they can intelligently,--not crudely and dangerously,--control their sexual lives. And they are justified by the highest considerations in fighting vigorously and persistently until...
...when more and more national advertising is appearing in newspapers, when magazines generally are viewing with concern the amount of newspaper space taken by national advertisers, your announcement of these two newspaper campaigns, considerable in their amount and important in their significance, is, to my mind, a tribute to the honesty of your broadminded, impartial editorial policy...
While your magazine or newsmagazine as you call it serves its purpose, I am content to let my subscription run out. The trouble with TIME, as I see it, is that it is too brief. You do not have space to cover thoroughly your subjects. Hence please cancel my subscription...
...centuries men have dreamed of the eye that would penetrate stone walls and miles of space. Last week sight at a distance (television) came true. In Manhattan, in the auditorium of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Walter S. Gifford, President of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., talked to his Vice President, General J. J. Carty, in Washington, D. C. Said President Gifford, dapper, cheery: "Hello, General, you're looking fine. I see you have your glasses on." Out of the loudspeaker, General Carty's bass voice boomed: "Does it-ah-does it flatter me?" President Gifford carefully viewed...