Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dreary, ever-pressing shortages of strategic materials pose one of the most troublesome problems of the U.S. air arm: the need of spacious, speedy transport units to move personnel and equipment to combat areas. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. had a new answer on the drawing board: a mammoth transport plane, perhaps the world's largest of its type, made mainly of plywood and plastics...
...left of the lobby a wealth of medieval manuscripts fill a well lit, spacious Exhibition Room, so arranged as to illustrate the spread of printing across Europe. On the other side of the Lobby is the Reading Room, open only to students. From here a ramp leads into the heart of Widener's stacks, but a push-button at the librarian's desk can shut the bridge off from ineligibles. Behind the librarian a book-elevator goes down the stacks...
Lavishly decorated and modernistically finished, the structure's parior-like studies and reading rooms contrast sharply with the cold brazenness of the Widener rooms, and the painted, gently-lit stacks, spacious and dirt free, are unlike the older, dingy-looking shelves of the mother structure...
...Gestapo headquarters in Berlin, Hangman Heydrich has a spacious, bare-walled office with a big desk for himself, comfortable chairs, a sofa and cigarets for visitors. Foreign diplomats who used to visit him there, to plead or protest for fellow nationals, found him polite, attentive, even affable. But they noticed one thing about him-he never smiled...
...spacious halls of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., where leisure-loving Southerners played before the Civil War, a lonely gathering of Nazis celebrated Christmas. They were among the 159 German and Hungarian diplomats and newsmen and their families who have been transferred to "The White" from Washington...