Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made us so that we all cannot get through the same door at once, there must be precedence," we have in our Washington contretemps what L. P. Jacks in Constructive Citizenship designates as among the deepest characteristics of the modern mind,-i. e. "an overdeveloped faculty for thinking in space, and an underdeveloped or perhaps decayed faculty for thinking in time. With space-thinking alone to guide us we are apt to think our work done when we have devised a social scheme, system, or envisaged-diagram in which men and forces are placed (note the term) in right relationships...
...landings and takeoffs, except in rainy weather. Then the planes tear up the sod. To remedy that fault Croydon officials are considering putting a paved strip all around the field, as at the Rotterdam field. Croydon has two steel and concrete hangars, providing 90,000 sq. ft. of floor space. Each hangar has overhead cranes to move planes and motors. Back of the hangars are workshops, storerooms. Croydon's administration building is a large two-story affair with a roomy control tower rising above one end. It contains waiting room, telegraph desks, book shop, rest rooms, quarters for police...
...Sachs lends annually to the Fogg for a period of six months, also appears in this gallery. John Nicholas Brown '22 has lent to the Museum an excellent picture by El Greco entitled "Saint Dominic." Most of the important paintings which were removed from this room to make space for the French exhibition have been returned from storage, among them the Ross Tintoretto...
...University, works in informal cooperation with it. The two groups of houses so far built by this organization, namely Shaler Lane and Holden Green have met with a well merited popularity from faculty members and married graduate students. The fact that so many units are contained within a small space makes for a congenial and compact society and has the practical advantage of facilitating the management...
...which man adorns the earth for his comfort and amusement. Dominant was the 44th exhibition of the Architectural League of New York. But since architecture is more than, ever a synthesis of many elements - pure design, clients' specifications, construction engineering, interior decorating, landscape architecture, plumbing - much of the space was devoted to the Allied Arts. The architectural gamut ran through garages, houses, churches, public buildings, reached a skyward climax in Manhattan Architect William Van Alen's plans for the new Chrysler Building, to be world's highest (68 stories), now under construction in midtown Manhattan. Everywhere apparent...