Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good news awaited the President when he returned to Washington. A new yacht, the Coast Guard patrol boat Electra, will supersede the wooden Sequoia to carry him on his weekends afloat. Advantages of the Electra: steel hull, 165 feet overall; 15 knots; enough space not only for the President and guests but also for his Secret Servants. Budgeteers expected some saving in the $87,166 which it cost the Government to operate the Sequoia in fiscal...
...Through Space & Time (TIME, Nov. 19. 1934) Sir James showed how the moon, spiraling gradually closer to Earth, must eventually be broken up by Earth's gravitation. One of Jupiter's little satellites, for example, is so close to that big planet's gravitational "danger zone" that it is egg-shaped. Sir James made it clear last week that the lunar approach will be no harmless display for earthlings...
...tune with the Record's New Deal preachment of "Spend! Spend! Spend!" the advertisement was signed by William Randolph Hearst who had run it in his own 28 papers and 60 others throughout the land. With no outlet of his own in Philadelphia, he had bought space for his anti-New Deal advertisement in the reactionary Inquirer. When Julius David Stern, shirtsleeve publisher of the Record, saw it there, he picked it up, reprinted it free, used it as an excuse for another of his stand-up fights with a man whom most other publishers prudently ignore...
...challenged the master of San Simeon thus on the Record's front page: "Let Hearst, arch reactionary, battle the liberal Record at close range, and let Philadelphia citizens be the jury. . . . Philadelphia is one of the few cities in the country where Mr. Hearst has to pay for space to place his views before the public. . . . We suggest that Hearst immediately remedy this situation by purchasing a Philadelphia newspaper so our fellow citizens may have the benefit of a steady flow of his 'disinterested advice...
...exactly the same position that Princeton was during the first year of Fritz Crisler's administration. The experience of the two colleges has proved that injuries and lack of attacking power must inevitably dog the course of any man who tries to reform a football outfit within the space of a single year...