Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once more finding Richard Harrison's ''news maps" in TIME, after what I feared might be a permanent absence? I rate them as one of the most interesting features of the magazine and clip them religiously. A great deal of information is compressed into a small space in Harrison's maps; I remember particularly: "Italy in Abyssinia since 1882," in LETTERS, and "Manhattan's Black City" and ''Baltic Crisis," in TIME. 'Mediterranean Maneuver" and "Memel and Nazis" keep me hoping that Harrison will long continue to put the news...
Architect Le Corbusier's real service to modern architecture has been as philosopher and phrasemaker. Though the great expanses of glass that he favors may occasionally turn his rooms into hothouses, his flat roofs may leak and his plans may be wasteful of space, it was Architect Le Corbusier who in 1923 put the entire philosophy of modern architecture into a single sentence: "A house is a machine to live...
...have said that the materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement, in this order and in this hierarchy...
...something natural. Like anything natural, it must be prodigal in time, money and effort. A herring lays a million eggs of which only one may be hatched. The sun is a spendthrift when you consider that only a minute fraction of its light & heat ever reaches anything in space. "So must research be lavish." Many an unhampered experiment at Eastman tends to stray from the field of photography. In a vacuum of one-millionth atmospheric pressure, Dr. Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman is distilling pure Vitamins A and D from animal oils. An X-ray device has been developed which tells...
...graceful creatures in shapely garments growing agitated over the thought of a flight around the Moon. Inhabitants of the future ski down waterfalls, which is presumably as dangerous in another century as it was up to this week. When the daughter of John Cabal, dictator, volunteers to fly through space with her sweetheart in the interests of science and adventure, all dissatisfied elements in the world rally in a great antiscientific revolt, are confounded when Catherine and her lover running ahead of the mob, go whistling off toward the stars...