Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooming houses. ¶Provisions encouraging ground-level plazas around skyscrapers and apartment houses; for example, buildings with extra-sized plaza space would be allowed floor space beyond the prescribed limits. ¶ Reduction of commercial acreage by almost 50%, with emphasis on unsightly and inconvenient "ribbon" business districts lining block after block of arterial streets in residential neighborhoods. ¶ Better zoning for the needs of heavy industry to keep scattered houses out of scarce plots more suitable for large-scale, big tax-paying plants. ¶ An increase of off-street parking facilities for New York's 1,500,000 vehicles...
...move seems logical, Frederick H. Joseph '59, a House Committee member, said yesterday, since it is "pretty definite" that the offices in Lehman will shift to the 12-story "business block" to be built between Massachusetts Ave. and Mount Auburn St. When this construction takes place, Dudley House will be torn down, while Lehman Hall will become free for possible use by the Commuters...
Taking issue with supporters of the notification order, Councilor Edward A. Crane '35 said he did not favor a "road block" which would hamper Harvard's legitmate effort to buy the land. He asserted that the University "has started an active real estate market here," al- though it might have attempted to obtain the land through private negotiations...
Rhubarb and her sisters have been named Block Island Forties. They are centerboarders, wider than most ocean racers, and with a unique rounded stem. In the closemouthed tradition of naval architects, Tripp will say only that his design "follows my ideas in relation to resistance and lateral plane, ideas which are somewhat different from some my competitors hold." Lawyer Lorenzen is a little more specific. "It's quite a trick to get a boat with tremendous stability and not too much underbody," he says. "Bill draws his lines very tight. His lines at the forward section are very fine...
...ocean racers have been produced from the Tripp-designed mold. At least four, and probably more, will follow. After last week's triumph, many an ocean sailor was eying one of Designer Tripp's Block Island Forties for himself...