Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the approaching completion of two new floors of steel stacks in the Widener Library additional space will be provided for more than a quarter of a million volumes, according to Superintendent Frank Carney. The original plans made allowances for two floors, upon a level lower than the present A and B floors; but no movement was made toward the completion of these floors until further contributions could be received. Merely the steel superstructure supporting the above eight floors was in place...
...Problems do not get easier as the World grows older. The extraordinary multiplicity of plants and animals is astounding. What an imagination the Creator must have had! Our growth of knowledge of the planetary system shows that everything is governed by one system of law. Order permeates all space which leads us to postulate the existence of some great being who controls...
...Millikan explained that there was no reason apparent why the universe should ever end, implied that it had never even begun. Somewhere in the depths of space, he believed, helium, oxygen, silicon and iron were being formed from the ultimate constituent of all matter, the electron. "In the hot stars and the sun," he said, "matter is being disintegrated into energy or radiation: in the unimaginably cold expanse of space, radiation or energy is being reintegrated into matter...
This reintegration evinced itself in the cosmic rays, which he described as the "birth-cries" of the atoms, radiations pouring in upon the earth from infinite space by night as well as by day, a fact excluding solar explanations, emanation capable of penetrating eighteen feet of lead, a far greater depth than any other known rays...
...reminiscence with their kitchenware. In pleasant 19th century cadences Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion, so that each wretch lay curved in his neighbor...