Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris sent along the following note with his subscription renewal: "One of the strongest reasons I have for reading TIME, aside from its American viewpoint on world affairs, is that . . . when I read it I feel as if I were in America with its freedom and its wide spaces - a freedom we have lost in Europe and the space we never...
...escape into outer space, Lewis pointed out, requires an initial speed of 6.95 miles a second (25,020 m.p.h.). This requirement cannot be dodged by running the rocket motor slowly over a long period; that would only waste energy by forcing the ship to carry heavy fuel to a greater height...
...reach "escape velocity," the space ship's fuel must be used as economically as possible, and the efficiency of a rocket motor depends on the speed of the exhaust gases. Lewis calculated that a space ship carrying half its total weight in fuel would have to shoot out its exhaust gases at 9.95 miles a second...
Today the association is especially concerned with the parking and traffic situations in Harvard Square. For the past few years the group has attempted to secure land adjacent to the Square for parking facilities. Lack of adequate space has developed because commuters to Boston leave their cars in the Square for the day and use the subway to travel into town...
...installation of parking meters has lessened this practice but has created problems equally disturbing. A one hour parking limit causes Square shoppers inconvenience. Parking space is still difficult to find, and this lack hinders Suayo business