Word: spacings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Sweet mend his mathematics: a googol is not equal to 10². Ten squared is simply 100. Reader Sweet's googolplex is not a googolplex but merely a googol squared. By using a series of ascending powers, a googolplex could be written in comparatively small space; written straight out, it would, as TIME said, stretch further than the visible universe...
...Gingrich. So he, virtually his entire staff and all their works were scrapped. To take Jay Allen's place came another onetime Tribune correspondent, George Seldes, iconoclastic author of You Can't Print That! and Sawdust Caesar. But another snag turned up. Prospective advertisers balked at taking space in what they regarded as a pinko magazine. Ken became anti-communist as well as antifascist, some of its bright young liberal contributors were alienated and George Seldes, while retained as a contributor, was asked to do his work at home...
Because Painter Blanche has covered whole epochs in his previous writing, and does not want to go over the same ground in this, he does not follow a strict chronological narrative in Portraits of a Lifetime, but skips through time & space as his memory prompts him. The result is a little disconcerting to readers who do not know his previous volumes. At one moment the artist may be telling some antique anecdote about Renoir which drifts imperceptibly into comment about the political situation in present-day France, of which he strongly disapproves...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
After practicing every day last week, the Harvard rugby team has begun to take definite shape for its game with Cambridge University on Saturday, March 26th. In the early part of the week practice was held indoors in the small Carey cage. But though hampered by lack of space, a lot of valuable ground-work was done. With the beginning of outdoor practice on Thursday, the ruggers were able to put on their cleats and get a real work-out. Contact work started at once, and scrimmages were hold both Thursday and Friday. The Crimson showed generally good tackling...