Word: spaciously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drop in--as they are wont to do--studying becomes out of the question. More and more the student is beginning to utilize his room for bridge, or the victrola, or some sort of a good time; and when he feels the need for study, he repairs to the spacious and comparatively peaceful reading room at Widener. The consequences of this condition of things are deeper than appear on the surface. By transferring all intellectual activity from his living quarters to the college library, the student falls into the practice of limiting his reading to his courses...
Somewhere inside the great red sandstone walls, in one of the spacious old-fashioned chambers of the Waldorf-Astoria (in Manhattan) sat a tremendous man. Swarthy he was, and six feet tall, 230 pounds over all. Near him stood a man lighter in build but equally dark in cast of countenance, his interpreter...
...pilot train hastening through the night to Huetel, down the tracks from Buenos Aires. . . Behind it a train of gorgeously fitted cars drawn by two engines . . . In a spacious bed, a sleeping Prince...
Standing alone, en face an entire square, fronted by a great piazza, opulent, spacious, its auditorium seven tiered, its broad stairways of scintillant marble, the Teatro Colon easily outranks, surpasses all other South American opera centers. Its seating capacity is 3500- It has been spoken of by Burton Holmes, famed traveler, loquacious lecturer, as "the best appointed theater I ever inspected." Commenced in 1889, completed in 1908, it has teemed ever since with the most consistently well dressed public in the world. To those not in evening dress-the embellished portal is Cerrado, Chiuso, Ferme, Locked...
...country has held the heavyweight championship in office buildings. Manhattan at first took the lead with the historic Mills building (soon to be torn down) and kept it with the subsequent erection of other skyscrapers, including the Woolworth and Equitable Buildings. The latter is at present Manhattan's most spacious office structure. It contains 1,236,000 square feet of office space...