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Word: spacings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...bibliography he had sent me in advance, he was quite content to use the smaller type, for the heaped-up authorities in my Study at once made it apparent that there would be no difficulty, more serious than a back-ache, in filling the assigned space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...learned that it is customary, in this course, to measure written assignments by quarto pages of the common 8 1-2 by 11 inch size. The impression seems to prevail that a page is a page for a' that; and the student may use single, double, or even triple space at will and leave margins of a width not prescribed. This permits the number of words to a page to be doubled or to be halved. Having spent all my business life in close contact with authors, editors, literary agents, printers and printers' link, I told my guest that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...early days the Project had its temperamental riffles. In Manhattan Poet Orrick Johns had his jaw broken by a literary longshoreman to whom he had refused a job. In St. Louis radical Novelist Jack Conroy (The Disinherited) went on strike. Along with such editorial problems as deciding how much space strikes should take up in community histories, directors were also handicapped by the desertion of their best writers for other jobs; writers were hampered by the possibility that the project would be curtailed, or that the sale of a story would drop them from relief rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mirror to America | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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