Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue-eyed Clarence Addison Dykstra marched up the Hill last week, smiling and waving to undergraduates. In his spacious, comfortable office, he stretched his long legs and relaxed. He was glad to be back as University of Wisconsin's president. But Dr. Dykstra, home in Madison from a year in Washington (Selective Service Director, Defense Mediator), knew better than most college presidents that he would find no isolation on his campus. In a nation under arms, colleges had new things to do, new facts to face...
...plans. Last week some of his sketches (see cuts) arrived in the U.S. To disciples of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, Architect Gibson's classic-revival façades and pseudo-Roman columns looked disappointingly conservative. But he had laid out his future Coventry on spacious, parklike lines, put huge squares and fountains where crowded slums and shopping districts once knotted Coventry's busy traffic...
...spacious, landlocked bay which reminded me of the west coast of Scotland, powerful American warships, protected by strong flotillas and far-ranging aircraft, awaited our arrival and, as it were, stretched a hand out to help...
...stranglehold on world trade must be broken; the English Tories brought to book. He is not so sure that they will be, as he is that history will bring Franklin Roosevelt to book. Such were the thoughts last week of this big man who walks up & down his spacious office, gnawing his great cigar, storing up the Biblically powerful invective of which he is a master, and biding his time...
realization that New York is today the art center of the world." The 242 pictures and pieces of sculpture, ranged round three rooms at the big, cool Fine Arts Gallery, proved nothing so spacious nor central. But each gallery stocked the show with its best artists, so the pool had plenty of fish to please everybody...