Word: spaced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio Radcliffe's offer of ten minutes of air space to the Annex League for Democracy for a regular Tuesday evening news analysis was not accepted by League members at yesterday's meeting...
...jabberwock he is hunting, a college fraternity, last seen some years ago at Williams College, left a stain upon this editor's blotter which must be purged by vitriol . . . Hurling three columns of ketchup at the group which inferiorated him . . he retires from the field, having given space long filled by eminent philosophers and editors to a personal and trivial hurling of tomatoes in the essence...
Playwright Maxwell Anderson, who once bought advertising space in a newspaper to strike back at the critics who had panned his latest play (Truckline Café in 1946), explained in the New York Herald Tribune why the American theater has gone to pot: "Moving pictures offer a cheap substitute; wars have damaged our morals, our manners and our taste; our whole western civilization grows doubtful of itself . . . But," he added, nursing his old wounds, "when a playwright [is] . . . publicly whipped, flayed alive, drawn, quartered . . . by every theatrical commentator, that's an experience that can drive good playwrights as well...
...they moved farther away, in both time and space, from their Asiatic homeland, the Ipiutaks shed their Asiatic culture. But Larsen hopes to prove that before the light from Asia died out, some sparks of it passed down the coast by "cultural diffusion," and affected races far to the south. Thus, he may establish one of the few, perhaps the only, cultural contact of pre-Columbian days between the Old World...
...Army Athletic Association, faced with the problem of providing space in Michie Stadium for several thousand Harvard spectators, has apparently acted in haste and with indiscretion. Several hundred of the best seats in the Crimson sections, seats which should have gone to students, alumni, and former "H" men, were withdrawn by West Point Officials for "non-working press and pre-season commitments." It now appears that these tickets have been sold by the Army box office into channels which brought them to New York speculators for public sale...