Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime accelerated program, the Freshman Dining Hall has ceased to exist. The Class of '45 and preceding classes knew the ivy-covered building across Quincy Street from the President's house as the place where they met their classmates three times daily for meals and also as a spacious recreation hall containing common rooms, libraries, and billiard rooms reserved exclusively for "Yardlings." The great and long-to-be remembered social event of the Freshman year, the Jubilee, has also been traditionally held in the Union, and the Smoker was moved there this year from Memorial Hall...
...breed and with a reverence for the human spirit which too many of his literary superiors lack. In this novel about the miracle of Lourdes, which is an act of piety transcending blood and creed ("I am not a Catholic but a Jew"), he brings that reverence into clean, spacious focus...
...short, grey-moustached man stood, looking pleased, behind the standees in Manhattan's spacious, echoey Center Theater, and watched the red velours curtains close in front of the shadowy vault scene of Verdi's Aïda. He had a right to be pleased. For the 150 members of his troupe, it was merely the last perform-ance of another season, but for Fortune Gallo it was a milestone. His San Carlo Opera Company had wound up its 30th season, giving the U.S. public opera at popular prices, and without deficits...
...Superintendent Milton Worthley where it is unpacked by Elmer Heaps, former Gloucester sailmaker who is now The Fogg's carpenter. Then the work is sent through a fixed routine from the registrar to photographers to technical department and finally to a gallery or the storeroom. This latter, a spacious hall in the basement, already contains hundreds of miscellaneous items from the chair President Conant sits in at Commencement and the University's Great Salt to a bottle with Dean Swift's seal on it and the mace from the Irish parliament, which has been stored there since the World...
Leaving Sullivan in the 1890s, Wright rapidly evolved a style of his own, a spacious, low-slung type of building, whose simple planes and monolithic unity of design were to remain constant features of Wright houses for many years. A tireless experimenter with new materials and bold forms, he invented and evolved new structural uses for everything from concrete to plywood, built houses that challenged every conventional rule of the architect's art. By 1910, his new ideas had spread from suburban Oak Park, Ill., where he lived, to Holland and Germany, where a whole school of modern architecture...