Word: spaciousness
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...quiet, diligent and lawful men is deeply satisfying-until the Mauretanians, inhabitants of bordering swamps and forests, begin their raids. The Mauretanians are led by the Chief Ranger, a man who "hated the plough, the corn, the vine and the animals tamed by man, who looked with distaste on spacious dwellings and a free and open life. . . . Only then did his heart stir when moss and ivy grew green on the ruins of the towns, and under the broken tracery of vaulted cathedrals the bats fluttered in the moon. . . . Wherever the structures raised by the ordered life of man began...
...hidden, unnecessarily expensive, and poorly distributed rise in tuition, Housemasters and housing officials should take advantage of the situation to eliminate current confused and unfair room rent discrepancies. The cases of occupants of small, evamped rooms being charged higher rents than those living in more spacious and desirable suites are too numerous under the present sealing system for current prices to seem other than haphazard. Any increase in rent affords a perfect opportunity to iron out these iniquities...
...House converted double and conclude that Lowell dwellers are more comfortable is sheer folly. The very size of Lowell single rooms makes them inferior to even the smallest double; yet, because of the poor rent policy, the men in minute singles are paying rents comparable to others in more spacious doubles and triples...
McKean was a poor lecturer but an unusual man. "O I declare, I sometimes think he will look me right through," wrote one girl on hearing him speak. Nevertheless, he was studious, and the houses's spacious rooms had their first taste of bookishness in the five years of his residence. Fay House saw another prophesy of things to come in the 1820's, when Sophia Dana used the Oval Room to give the neighborhood girls some schooling in subjects that the Harvard men were studying. The classes continued through several years against fearful dangers, for, as an observer remarked...
...building will house 1,500 tenants (330 families) in spacious duplexes, all prefabricated and slipped into place like drawers into an empty desk. The outer walls will be mostly glass, and finlike shades will protect them from the Mediterranean sun, a stunt Le Corbusier had tried in Rio de Janeiro. "Just as the human eye can stand the sun because it has eyelashes," says Le Corbusier, "rationally oriented sunbreaks will admit only those rays that bring pleasant warmth and cheer in every season...