Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, the Empress of Britain challenges the Atlantic with an intangible quality, "space." What ship is the most spacious? What...
Hoover's personality began to be felt in Stanford's affairs soon after he built the spacious, flat-roofed house hard by the campus where in 1928 he was to receive the news of his election to the Presidency. In 1912 he went on Stanford's Board of Trustees. By that time Ray Lyman Wilbur was dean of the Medical School...
...story of the C. P. R.'s construction is one of railroading's most spacious epics. In many Canadian schoolrooms hang pictures of the driving of the last C. P. R. spike at Craigellachie, B. C., on Nov. 7, 1885. Symbolizing the hardships the road went through, the last spike was iron, not gold. And every man who went to see it driven paid full fare...
...small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator with the motor disguised as a gold pagoda...
...architecture, in keeping with the surrounding Harvard Buildings, is modernized Georgian in style. One of the most notable features of the building at this stage of construction is the large number of spacious windows. Made of white-steel casement, this type of fenestration will insure an adequate supply of air and sunlight. Continuous ventilation in the new structure will also be made possible by an elaborate system of ducts operated on soundproof platforms on the top story...