Word: spaciousness
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Oakland began with a spacious, 2,000-acre campus, a fat-free academic diet, and a spartan atmosphere of no dormitories, fraternities, sororities or organized athletics (TIME, Sept. 28, 1959). It had one major drawback: serving almost entirely as a commuter college in a low-income area, it was expected to demand Harvard-level performance from poorly prepared youngsters...
Fighting to stay in contention for a first division finish in the Ivy League standings, the varsity basketball team travels to Philadelphia tonight to play the University of Pennsylvania on the spacious Palestra court. Tomorrow night the Crimson will complete its weekend trip by meeting Princeton at the Tiger's home floor...
...thing he plans to settle down in is a helicopter-on the spacious lawn outside his home in pukka Coldwater Canyon. Some 25 of his neighbors turned up to protest at a hearing in the West Los Angeles city hall. "He's a nighttime person," said a neighbor. "Parties start in the middle of the night and you can hear them through the canyon. The neighbors wake up and spend an irate night. It hasn't been too bad lately, though. But can you imagine how a helicopter would sound taking off from here in the middle...
...making these spacious claims is Henrym A. Barnes, 55, one of the best traffic engineers in the nation. He has to be, for as any native (or visitor) will testify. New York City traffic is really something. Never one to underestimate his worth, Hank Barnes demanded a $30,000-a-year salary and a free hand before he would accept the job. He settled for $27,500 and-he says-the free hand...
...brokers no longer do their trading from the curbstones of Lower Manhattan dressed in zebra-striped hats and bright blazers, but SEC found that several of the stocks they trade in their spacious hall ("a large number of these have been stock of Canadian mining or oil companies") are as risky as they were in the days of the '49 Gold Rush. "While undoubtedly the great majority of issuers of listed stocks are sound business enterprises," noted SEC, "the Exchange has appeared reluctant to suspend or de-list issues whose future prospects have proved...