Word: flooringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clark plans a political compromise to help get the proposal onto the Senate floor for debate. He will suggest elimination of the affidavit--which requires each recipient of an NDEA loan to certify he does not "support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States government"--but will advocate retention of the pledge of allegiance...
...seventh floor of the hotel is reserved for women on weekends, and a "house mother" is employed: Mary Wooley, who works at Radcliffe during the week. The rates for single rooms in the hotel on weekends are about one-half as high as the regular rate...
Treatment of the building's interior walls varies greatly on each floor. Some walls are covered with colored tile, others with brick or stucco design, still others with mahogany battened strips. Corridors on all but the first floor are bound by sheets of opaque glass. In every part of the building the designers attempted to achieve a sense of three dimensionality, Aspasquella noted...
Expansion keynotes the UMass atmosphere. From almost every point on the 800-acre campus one can see new buildings arising: a new science center, a seven-floor addition doubling the size of the Goodell Library, a new women's dormitory, a liberal arts building. This expansion has definitely been keyed to the future, to the day when a student body of 10,000 will matriculate. Perhaps the most impressive document on display in the UMass information office is the Master Plan. Drawn up in 1954, this 42-page booklet talks airily of 15 more men's dormitories...
...immaculate pumice-walled cells of the colony students are relaxing in the privacy of individual bedrooms and are furnishing austere living rooms. At meal times the House feeds its members as they pass by the brightly lit food counter. It whirs them quickly from floor to floor and through its spiracular windows provides lofty views of Cambridge...