Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plummeted end over end at 119 m.p.h. Then he pulled his rip cord, jerked upright as the parachute opened, floated serenely to earth, well pleased because he had just made the first scientific analysis of the "subjective mental and physical reactions to a free fall in space...
...difficult to draw a picture of University officialdom in so short a space, but these outlines may serve to introduce Harvard men to characters who frequently appear in any report of Cambridge life...
...trick methods of construction were employed, and few trick building materials were used. Basically the house is a floor plan so shrewdly thought out that 80% of the building's enclosed space is usable, in contrast to about 65% in ordinary dwellings. Like the Motohome, it has a prefabricated bathroom, a kitchen which includes a washing machine and electric dishwasher with its standard equipment. No particular exterior finish is specified. For approximately the same price the Future House may be built in honest modern cement or veneered to look like a Cape Cod cottage or a Spanish hacienda...
Among the fraternity, French art dealers have a handy way of figuring the value of pictures by artists with established reputation: they measure the canvases and divide the area into the resulting number of numéros (a numero being a space about five inches square). Pablo Picasso, highest priced of any French painter, gets about 7,000 francs per numero for his canvases. From that peak prices drop sharply. In Manhattan last week the Museum of Modern Art gave its first one-man show of the season to an artist rated by most dealers the third or fourth highest priced...
...selections from the masterworks of each of the grant English prose writers which not only give an idea of the artists at their best but often attempt honestly to reflect upon all the various facets of his genius. Any anthology will skimp here and there, will give too much space to men its readers may not think highly of individually; it is safe to say that under Professors Whitridge and Dodge this anthology has consistently accorded as much space as seems wise both in the development of English prose and the attraction of their art for the present-day student...