Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size, over-the-counter dealers range from a single individual with desk. space and a telephone to the big unlisted Wall Street houses with the capital and prestige of a first-flight member of the Stock Exchange. They make the markets for the nation's unlisted issues, varying from active Manhattan bank stocks to local real-estate mortgages. All the listed issues on. all U. S. stock exchanges foot up to only 7,000. The roster of unlisted issues may be as high...
Elucidating the great universe of stars and spiral nebulae and abysmal reaches of space, Dr. Einstein advanced in 1915 his General Theory of Relativity, which brought celestial performances into the four-dimensional theatre of space-time and made gravity an effect of space-time's curvature. Today Relativity is as familiar a guide to astronomers as a radio beam to an aviator...
...savants, following a suggestion from a third, found that the classic Relativity equations could be altered to take particles and electric fields into account with no more drastic change than a simple elimination of denominators. The solutions came out free of "singularities," and they described a space radically different from the old four-dimensional continuum. The new space was a system of two identical "sheets" joined here & there by what Dr. Einstein and his associate deemed best to call "bridges." The bridges turned out to be particles. The properties of one bridge identified it as a particle with mass...
...form until he could get strikebreakers on the job. After four weeks on the picket line, the strikers scraped together enough money to launch the Journal, a 16-page, 2? tabloid full of local news. Two unemployed newshawks helped them. Local merchants, theatres, lunchrooms, liquor stores bought liberal advertising space. Press run: 20,000. All proceeds went to the Typographical Union for strike benefits...
...work that deals principally with the changing moods and movements of nine million soldiers, unknown millions of peasants, hundreds of thousands of industrial workers, individuals can be given little space. Yet Author Chamberlin turns again & again to the enigmatic figure of Lenin, writes of him with an historian's objectivity rather than with a newshawk's interest in a spectacular figure. He insists on Lenin's cold colorlessness, even while relating how Lenin plotted to disguise himself as a deaf-&-dumb Swede in order to return to Russia; how he escaped arrest by hiding successively...