Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front of this bar is painted to represent a wood railing, with the counter portions of mahogany. Shelves painted lacquer red backed by mirrored glass with a painted decoration in the centre contribute to the gaiety of this space...
News values were vague. Dissertations upon the hot weather in Philadelphia, arrival of muslins from the Orient, occupied as much space as his "dearly beloved Majesty" addressing Parliament...
...election. For this was their whole account of a potent colonial event: "The Hon. John Hancock, Esq., a Delegate [to the Continental Congress] from Boston, is appointed President of the Congress in the room of the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Esq." Impartial, the Gazette gave George Washington no more space when he was appointed commander-in-chief of "all the provincial troops in North America...
...Corp., a company formed to erect an 80-story office building on the site of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. It is to be nearly 1,000 feet tall (nearly five times its 200 foot frontage on Fifth Avenue), to contain 34.000,000 cubic feet of habitable space, making it not only the tallest but the largest building in the world. As executive in charge of the construction and management of the building Mr. Smith is to receive a salary unofficially reported as $50,000 a year.* Instead of repeating political platitudes about Service, Mr. Smith exercised...
...Minnesota legislators a dance hall is "any room, place, or space open to public patronage in which dancing, wherein the public may participate, is carried on and to which admission may be had by the public by payment either directly or indirectly of an admission fee or price for dancing...