Word: space
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie opens with a long shot of the earth whirling in space, and the voice of Creator DeMille himself intoning a speech that begins: "Before the dawn of history, ever since the first man discovered his soul . . ." To meet the challenge of building from there, DeMille brings on a seven-day saturnalia in the fleshpots of Timnath; Delilah Lamarr slinking through ten changes of scanty costumes; Samson Mature strangling a lion with his bare hands, killing 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, and pulling the temple down about the ears of the whole company...
...from the library's front. He stood a moment, hearing the whole church catch up a hymn and call back to the choir. There was no money here, no colored lights, no tinsel; Vag had the Yard to himself for a time, alone with leafless trees and space and darkness...
...That is my sincere desire ... I do not believe our present course, if pursued, would benefit anyone and I do think we might bring unpleasant attention to the newspaper business, which has been very good to both of us. In fact, I think it is wasteful to devote valuable space to personal controversies between columnists...
...grant comes on a project basis, with a long string of Greek words stipulating what the money will be spent for. The School is left to sign the check for what officials term the "intangibles"--chief among them, spending time to organize the project and the providing of the space to carry it out. What happens is that for each $1.00 of gift money received, the School is often left to pay out $1.05, $1.40, or perhaps even more...
...Them In." The managers do it by putting every foot of hotel space to work. In the Plaza, Hilton's men converted a basement storage space into the swank Rendez-Vous Room, where New Yorkers and visitors now pay $500,000 a year to dine & dance. Stockbrokers E. F. Hutton & Co., who had been paying only $5,000 a year for valuable ground-floor space, were moved upstairs (for the same rent). In their place the original Oak Bar was restored; it now grosses $25,000 a month. When Williford saw the chance to make $18,000 a year...