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...Philadelphia, Mr. Bergdoll's mother cautiously opened her door "by the width of a pencil" when visited by reporters. They poked an account of her son's arrest through the slit. After reading the despatch, Mrs. Bergdoll replied through the door: "I don't believe a word of it! When I was in Germany with him, he went around with a lot of young people but he never used to go with girls of the sort who would have him arrested. I don't even believe that he's in jail. He would have cabled...
...structure has the same width as the old, but its depth is more than doubled as it extends as far back as Palmer Street. An impression of greater width is created by a large vestibule 25 feet deep, faced with bronze and flanked by large show windows. Throughout the store, the problem of display has been given increased attention. On both sides of the interior display cases extend from the front of the store to the rear...
...value of any element in education lies in its richness in ideas by which it strengthens and enlarges the mind. Science has such ideas in plenty; and History and Modern Languages; but none of these subjects has them more richly than the Classics. Their strength lies just in this width of range. They include much of the greatest poetry, philosophy, history, criticism that the world has produced, and Greek in particular is the supreme embodiment of the true spirit of Science, the resolve to question all things and see them as they really...
...single spool of master film, 3 in. wide, 2 in. in diameter, contained the equivalent of 2,700 fonts of type. Spacing, column-width, style of type are determined with equal facility and speed. Telegraphy and wireless telegraphy can be utilized to operate several of the machines in various towns simultaneously. The importance, as prophesied by "two men in a back street," the inventors: to printing, especially that of newspapers, by saving millions in capital outlay for type fonts, many valuable minutes getting to press...
Oxford "bags" - trousers wide enough to hide effectively knocked knees, bowed legs and other nether malformations, and of colors gorgeous enough to shame a rainbow-were banned by the Provost of Eton, who stipulated that 20 inches round the ankle must be the maximum width...