Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton Avenue to Harvard Avenue, Bear right on Harvard Avenue to Cambridge Street. Bear right on Cambridge Street across railroad bridge to North Harvard Street. Straight through North Harvard Street to Western Avenue. Turn right on Western Avenue one quarter mile to H. A. A. parking space...
...Fleet Street (which in London parlance is synonymous for journalism), was one of the guests of honor. As he strode into the low, planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...
...last winter was the time when college boys, inspired by a dark and Faustian hunger, killed themselves by dozens. They know it because every time any college student committed suicide, the fact was bellowed from the front page of every U.S. newsheet. In a period when news was scarce, space was filled by the details of an imaginary "epidemic." Editors soon came to believe in their hoax and wrote articles showing how too much philosophy was being inserted into callow brains. Educators were faced with a grave dilemma, when it seemed probable that the death rate of colleges would exceed...
Dartmouth men might use dancing for training--heavy college, much athletic and lots of space--"heavy bim," to use the slang phrase. But the college girls give the prize to the M. A. C. boys. They have more chance than Tech men have, and more co-eds to practise on. --The Springfield News...
That element which packs lecture Lalls to the doors and which changes the function of aisles from that of pathways to that of seating space is what has been called, for want of a better term, the ability for great teaching. Where it is jacking one has courses attended by students whose attitude is complacent, uninterested and guided by other lights than the bright flame of intellectual curiosity. Where it is found there also one may find men to whom books are more than, required texts: men who have come together, almost in the ancient Greek manner, in order that...