Word: spaciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graf. She flew to Rio de Janeiro for the trip back aboard the DO-X. Said experienced Mrs. Adams: "You could hardly tell you were flying. The noise of the motors did not intrude unless you opened the port holes. Vibration also was notably absent. The cabins were spacious and comfortable...
...London Stock Exchange occupies a triangular area between Throgmorton Street, Bartholomew Lane and Old Broad Street. It is drabbish outside, domed above, spacious within. The Stock Exchange is a private corporation with some 2,700 shareholders, nearly all of whom are among the 4,000 members. The membership is divided between brokers proper, acting as agents on a commission basis, and jobbers who buy and sell, trade on their own account. One man cannot be both...
...spacious oak-paneled chamber of New York State's Court of Appeals at Albany, last week issued a fine distinction. The case was one of Municipal bribery, civic corruption. The decision confirmed the jailing of a citizen who had refused to tell a committee of the Legislature whether he had bribed an official of New York City. At the same time it denied that that legislative committee had power to deal similarly with any suspected citizen in its search for civic corruption. The fine distinction was between actual bribery and conspiracy to bribe. Straightway the legislative committee moved to erase...
...made his first balloon flight in 1911 and as superintendent spurred his company into the business of making balloons. Yet he never lost his love of salt water. He makes an ocean voyage at least once a year, keeps a summer home at Plymouth, Mass. His spacious estate in Akron's smart West Hill section is named "Anchorage." The gate is flanked by two great anchors; the rooms are filled with many a marine trophy. But the weathervane on his flagpole and the firescreen in his living room are in the form of Zeppelins. Conversely, most of the Goodyear...
...have contributed millions of dollars to the cause of President Chiang Kaishek. Astute, he has just built at Nanking a $240,000 ''Guest House" in which visiting Chinese donors and prospective donors will be sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old China. Its spacious gardens spread over nine mow (1½ acres). Pompously the small, shrill-voiced, wasp-waisted President inaugurated this gilded trap for contributions. Then, briskly he set out on his long promised military campaign to crush bandits & rebels (TIME, June...