Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonders of the old country, sneering at the French, saying Mass as the artillery of the English opens across the plains. It ends, 304 pages later, with the Irish resting in the same position at nightfall. Between these episodes Mr. Sheean has packed much historical enlightenment into a little space: pictured the luxury of the court of Louis XV, who traveled to the front with innumerable servants, 600 horses and 28 cooks; given a glimpse of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour at Etioles; sketched the life history of Maurice de Saxe (best character in the book), royal bastard and master...
...members stuck at having a WPA artist fill a space meant for Whistler or Sargent. "If any member," said Mr. Stokes, "thinks that Edward Laning is a long-haired Bolshevik, he should get a look at him." Edward Laning is neat, solemn; at 32 he looks less like a Bolshevik than a college senior. The sketches he submitted for four panels on The History of Bookmaking (Mr. Stokes suggested the subject), impressed the board last week and finally succeeded in bringing it around completely...
Eleven years ago an enterprising University of Florida student named Douglas Leigh bought all the advertising space in the college yearbook for $2,000, promptly resold the space for $7,000. In 1930, when he was down to the last $9 of this fat profit, he arrived in Manhattan to hunt a job. Though modest, soft-spoken Douglas Leigh hoped to work for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string...
...only tentative - nevertheless bumps into the views of Belgium's Abbé Georges Lemaitre, proponent of the "Exploding Universe." Abbe Lemaitre believes the cosmic rays are fragments of a universal explosion which took place bil lions of years ago, and therefore that the rays should fill all space more or less uniformly. This is only one of several hypotheses advanced to account for the rays' origin. Dr. Millikan used to believe they were liberated in interstellar space during the coalescence of light elements into heavier ones. Dr. Fritz Zwicky of Caltech believes that cosmic rays...
...which the keys click in response to radio impulses, picked up a message typewritten through the air from a Georgetown laboratory. Engineer Lemmon told the commission that one television station wavelength assignment would be roomy enough for 1,125 radio-typewriter channels, asked that his company be assigned wavelength space as wide as one television station is for experiment with radio business machines...