Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Editor Ansley sent his "Z's" to the printer. True to his word, he had crammed a goodly amount of the world's knowledge into one fat volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time...
...There was no talk of birth or rank By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank In the steel-grated prisons where I cast him; For But rest - niggard and hours the and a naked light narrow on his space face - While the ship's traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. IV "Thus I speak at the schooled him word to - at go a and sign be come - dumb; To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished and - over all - To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus...
...front cover) Astronomy deals with Earth, and with everything discernible beyond Earth. Its task is detecting, locating, describing and classifying countless millions of diverse objects-meteors, planets, comets, stars, shining streams of gas. dark clouds of cosmic debris, galaxies and super-galaxies glimmering across unimaginable gulfs of space. To avoid duplication of effort, to facilitate exchange of information and encourage cooperative research, astronomy's huge and complex task was years ago brought under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress...
...Columbus Circle, its Firemen's Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting a man and a tree into a segment space. Other fine work: The Bronx's Columbus Monument, Albany's Mother's Monument, Richmond, Va.'s bust of Thomas Jefferson...
...buried men, found none injured. The gondola, too, survived safely, but the bag, ripped, tumbled, knotted, was badly damaged. As the crowd on the rim of the bowl filtered away in the dawn, the camp gloomily began to pick up the pieces of one more false start into outer space...