Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, for two years during the first World War, the kindergarten and first grade of the overcrowded Agassiz School spilled over onto the front porch of Professor Cannon's home. Its spacious back yard offered a fine spot for a play ground, and swings and slides were set up there. At the same time, sailors cultivated the front yard and raised vegetables...
With this money (and more still to come), Rutgers and Waksman are planning to build an Institute of Microbiology. Quiet, modest Dr. Waksman will enjoy the new equipment and the more spacious laboratories. For himself he asks little. By taking advantage of the unusually liberal Rutgers policy in such financial matters, he might have claimed all the proceeds of his discovery and become a millionaire. But he turned over his royalty rights to the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation with the mild observation: "Rutgers won't let me starve...
...bedrooms will be occupied only part of the time, however, and the dorm has spacious facilities for social meetings in the small rooms on the first floor and in the smoking rooms located on the second, third, and fourth floors...
During the war years, Adenauer retired to a spacious white house near Cologne, and worked in his garden. In 1945 the U.S. Army reinstalled him once again as mayor of his beloved Cologne...
...wearing the only gown in town, changed costumes behind a screen. But as central Pennsylvania grew, so did the school. Last week Bucknell held its summer commencement with full academic pomp. One hundred sixty-six of its 2,400 students received their diplomas, took a farewell glimpse at the spacious 300-acre campus overlooking the Susquehanna Valley. Among alumni who had preceded them: General Tasker Bliss, ex-'73, U.S. Army Chief of Staff in World War I, and Baseball Immortal Christy Mathewson, ex-'02, who was a football hero at Bucknell...