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Word: spacings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose that space will be availabe to publish this letter. It will probably be buried along with the one I sent you some time ago when you referred to Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt as "long-legged." . . . CHARLES DENEGRE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1936 | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...tractor appliances like cranes, ranches, road scrapers. Another Wood "industry" includes tanks for milk, fuel oil and gasoline trucks. Still another ''industry'' is air conditioning, which the Woods entered in 1930 with the first oil burner furnace designed and built as a unit. Additional space wall soon be added to the Woods' Highland Park plant to take care of its booming air-conditioning business. The Woods also make automobile accessories like heaters, and last year acquired rights to William B. Stout's light, streamlined 24-passenger bus body. Only Wood enterprise not included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wood Workers | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...worth of halls and stadiums, its unsightly 150-acre dump sprawled along the lake front. Last March contractors began blasting away at frozen ashes, tin cans, bedsprings. In three months 15 miles of paving were laid, huge buildings erected. Exhibitors, paying $4 per sq. ft. for space, moved in their products. When last fortnight Secretary of Commerce Roper drawled a dull greeting into a microphone before a tiny audience, Cleveland suddenly woke up to find its dump converted into a thing of fun and beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Fun on a Dump | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...judgment of British editors, as reflected by the space devoted in their columns, highlights of King Edward's reign thus far have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grand Dame, Grand King | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...that no one can tell where any galaxy is now because it takes millions of years for its light to reach astronomers on Earth. Astronomers cannot even locate the galaxy in respect to Earth at the time the light began its journey, since all heavenly bodies dart continuously through space, and Earth's position aeons ago is unknown. Above all, Philosopher Hawkesworth calls it absurd to plot relative positions of the galaxies, since observers can only note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration of his point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stars & Time | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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