Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally the Tenth House should incorporate the following features, all of which are minimum structural steps toward making a House which would, in President Lowell's words, "supplement and enhance formal instruction" in the College...
...Single rooms for every student, to achieve the minimum privacy a college student requires. The rooms should be built around common living rooms, in units similar to new Quincy's quads. Unlike Quincy, however, the room arrangement should allow a maximum flexibility, so that living units can accommodate roommate groups of from two to eight students...
...Room units with fireplace, refrigerators, and adequate closet and shelf space, at the minimum. Walls should not be made of cinderblock...
...place where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless. The secret of survival in such a world, she has learned, is to smother every flicker of feeling. The old man appeals to her at first because he seems to offer her comfort in exchange for a minimum emotional payment on her part...
...Tall buildings rise in Europe with a minimum of traffic tie-ups and almost no noise, in pleasant contrast to the bedlam at most building sites in the U.S. Main reason for the difference is the kind of crane builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from...