Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riot matter much anyhow: all available wall space was covered with pictures of the President-("Help Perón -Vote for His Men") and La Señora ("The Standard-Bearer of the Workers"). All the while, the radio blared: "A vote for Perón is a vote for Social Justice...
...intellectual Vacuum" that was Europe at the war's end, has arisen gradually an ineatiable demand for knowledge and more knowledge to fill that vacuum. Students have helped rebuild universities with their bare hands. Many have been turned away from colleges for lack of space. Often there is only enough paper for one students to take notes for an entire class. Few books are available and, whenever a magazine is able to increase its publication, all issues are soon hungrily devoured...
Assorted privileges and conditions accompany the charter. The AYD can now appropriate Radcliffe space for Harvard-Radcliffe meetings and can state its aim for the benefit of prospective members in the freshman handbook...
Meanwhile, Matthews has allotted space to each department and chosen illustrations (news photographs, cartoons, historical pictures) in conference with Picture & Make-Up Editor Robert Boyd. When the stories are checked they are ready for the teletypesetters. Machines in TIME'S New York office wire the copy simultaneously to the Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles printing plants. Boyd and his assistants in New York paste up proofs on huge sheets, tell editors, late on Monday night, where lines must be added or killed to make pages...
Catastrophic Paradoxes. And yet, as 20th Century civilization reaches a climax, its own paradoxes grow catastrophic. The incomparable technological achievement is more & more dedicated to the task of destruction. Man's marvelous conquest of space has made total war a household experience and, over vast reaches of the world, the commonest of childhood memories. The more abundance increases, the more resentment becomes the characteristic new look on 20th Century faces. The more production multiplies, the more scarcities become endemic. The faster science gains on disease (which, ultimately, seems always to elude it), the more the human race dies...