Word: spaced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suites in Grays, Wigglesworth, and the outside dormitories, all of whose men enter Houses, will be reoccupied at a deconverted figure. Where only one member of such a crowded room moves to a House, his roommates can guarantee themselves the additional space by paying the higher rate. "Otherwise they run the risk that we will fill the vacancy," Watson said...
...There should be hedges and windscreens for mothers and infants, digging pits and water pools for the toddlers, and trees and bushes for hide-and-seek . . ." The overall density of population to open space, Mumford declared, "does not meet even the most meager requirements of good planning...
...buildings, said Mumford, were too high. Children could not use the elevators alone; mothers could not keep an eye on them from their kitchen windows. The foyers were dark, windowless and waste space. Though subsidized by tax exemption, the apartments were not reserved for low-income families. The "completely asphalted" playgrounds were inadequate...
...meticulous portrait painter,* Nicholson spent his art-student days "mostly playing billiards," which might possibly have stimulated his liking for abstract forms in space. He turned to abstraction bit by bit, still can't explain how it happened. Said he: "It's like a child learning to walk. By the time you've reached the 50th step you can't describe the different stages...
...proportion. Some of the major poets and novelists seem to be there merely for the record, their best known lines omitted. It is human enough to give Churchill top rating among the new entries with 9½ columns, and to give quotable Ogden Nash four, but in general | the space allotted to each "name" seems arbitrary, to say the least...