Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diamond Head. Ruddy, who lives with his wife and seven children in a spacious $125,000 beach home by Diamond Head, expects to gross $1,800,000 during his first year on the new CAB charter. He is convinced there is room for two airlines in the air-minded Territory, where 350,000 passengers flew among the islands last year. His fellow Orientals think so, too. When Ruddy recently floated a stock issue (at $1 a share) to finance his expansion, they eagerly chipped in their dollars. He sold 345,000 shares...
...crew reporter, on the other hand, finds himself in a spacious launch which runs up the river parallel to the race. Thus he may not only see all the race, but see it from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis...
Typography Expert: . . . and roman lower-case letters of Scotch and Baskerville have two or three thou. more breadth, which gives a more generous tone, an easier and more spacious color, to the full page...
...flower beds of Mayor Peng Chieh's spacious gardens were littered with bits of wood, plaster and broken glass. A man wrestled with a steam radiator, trying to get it on his shoulder. A coolie, stripped bare to the waist, grinned: 'I didn't like the mayor, anyway...
...command of English, a sound understanding of U.S. intellectual and political life, and friends in New York and Washington who were later to help him in his work for Puerto Rico. In 1926 he moved back home. Muñoz had hoped that life might be cheaper and more spacious in the land of his birth, but the poverty and slackness that met his eye in San Juan shocked him. He made up his mind in a hurry: "No Puerto Rican has the right to be a literato unless he first does something about conditions in this island...