Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funeral route and laying down again the "safety islands." These were ripped up & laid down for Foch-the object being that the Hero's body should pass straight up the centre of the way. But how many times is this gesture to be made-so grand, so spacious, so magnificently French? In Paris last week there was a growing undercurrent of opinion that the safety islands should hereafter be made in such a way that they can be unscrewed. Work Done by the Chamber last week...
Best, most honorable of Chinese War Lords is great Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of rich and peaceful Shansi Province, almost the only part of China not ravaged by incessant civil war. Last week Yen came out at the small, painful end of a spacious adventure. He had captured Peking, proclaimed himself President (TIME, July 12), sought to make all China a prosperous Shansi?and miserably failed...
...scholar would be sorely tempted to sign away his soul in the Black Man's Book. Imagine having for your study a room finished in dark oak panelling, cupboards thigh high, and book shelves on up to the ceiling, with chimneypiece to match-all flooded with sunshine from the spacious are of a bow window. The House Master's residence at Dunster fronts the river. In Lowell House the Master is not so lucky, but the architects have consoled him most successfully with a brick-walled garden close, its lawn shaded by two elms and a buckeye tree, and descended...
Improved restaurant facilities are foremost among the several changes made in the Harvard Union during the summer. Other improvements include the conversion of the rotunda over the H. A. A. ticket office into a spacious, well-furnished sun room. As a result of the alterations, the barber shop has been moved to the basement in the front of the building...
...team, an extraordinary one made up of four brothers Ashton from Australia-Philip, Geoffrey, James, Robert-all about the same size, closely resembling each other, ranked at 26 goals, were on hand to see and lend color to the summer's events. At Sands Point, and on the spacious turf overlooked by the stone terrace and colonial portico of Piping Rock Club (see map, p. 25), test matches between candidates for the U. S. team went on with much earnestness. People watching from cars parked along the sideboards were increasingly numerous and interested. The matches with England...