Word: spaced
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sometimes they merely gave advice on what sort of furniture to buy, what soundproofing, chalkboards or gym floors. In overcrowded towns, they analyzed population trends, decided just how much more space each school district would need to take care of its students properly. In the town of Soquel, for instance, they found that the elementary-school population had risen more than 16% in a single year, that the school had tried to make room for 282 more pupils than it should, and that it had only half the desirable amount of playground space. In Los Altos, the Stanford group recommended...
...annual selection. A waiter battled his way through the crowd, muttering: "My God, four ballots and five Pouilly-Fuissés and still these gentlemen have decided nothing!" Someone said: "They are not going to award a prize this year, they are not..." A voice roared: "Passageway! Clear a space for the photographers!" The door of the inner room opened, and looking solemnly down on the surging crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest (67) member of the academy, who, by tradition, must announce the winner. Slowly Mac Orlan came down the steps, pushed...
...pick out Dean Hall's favorite charity and publicize it more than the others. The CRIMSON agrees wholeheartedly with Dean Hall that the Community Fund drive is very important and of both direct and indirect benefit to Harvard students. We are sorry that we could not devote even more space to the whole Combined Charities drive. We are not sorry that we did not discriminate among the charities involved in that drive
...filled out forms, with the sergeant giving his instructions in a clipped, quiet voice. "Print your name in Space 12," he said; "now sign it in space 14." There were medical forms ("Have you ever been pregnant?") and a battery of psychological questions ("Do you often have trouble getting to sleep?-Check One: Often, Seldom, Never.") Then another sergeant came in and gave us our tests...
...radio waves from Andromeda proved also that radio stars are not peculiar to the "local" galaxy, i.e., the Milky Way. They are probably common in all , the galaxies scattered through the depths of space. Dr. A. C. B. Lovell, head of Jodrell Bank, suspects that they are just as numerous as the visible stars. They may be stars being formed, he speculates, out of interstellar gas. They may be dying stars (black dwarfs) too cool to shed visible light. Or they may be something new and still undreamed of by astronomers...