Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their use of color the paintings of the impressionists were like windows looking out onto sun-filled space. Van Gogh's were more like lamps; the powerful contrasts of pure color created an effect of light-vibration which was not confined to the pictures themselves but seemed to radiate from them. And where the impressionists minimized drawing, he applied an oriental concept that he had learned from studying the woodcuts of the 19th Century Japanese artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai. To Van Gogh, as to the Japanese, line was more than a lasso for capturing shapes...
Science Fiction Fan Hoen particularly liked the cover by Artist Hubert Rogers, applauded top Science Fictioneer Robert A. Heinlein for his serial "Gulf" and A. E. van Vogt for his short story "Final Command." As the magazine's readers are used to adventures in time & space, Editor John W. Campbell Jr. did not think Reader Hoen soft-witted. He printed Hoen's letter in the November 1948 issue with the comment: "Hm-m-m-he must be off on another time track." But he also thought Hoen was on the track of a thoughtful, balanced plan...
...Landsberg argued that his particles were bits of iron-rich material arriving from space with the meteors, but he could not prove it. For one thing, many of them were sharply wedge-shaped. They did not look as if they had received the terrific heating that meteorites usually...
Nothing happened for three full periods of play. But with the game beginning to look like a scoreless tie, the Crimson's John Harvey and Charlie Weiss and Navy's Dave Space kicked in the game's three goals in the space of 11 minutes of the fourth period...
...break came at 11:30 of the last period when the Crimson was awarded a penalty shot, and second-stringer John Harvey--the team's expert in the free shot department--made it good. But Navy's left outside, Space, broke through all alone to bent Harvard goalie whoop Batchelder and tie it up. Weiss finally snapped the tie at 16:30 with a goal after a pass play that went from Jim Bell and Ted Wolf...