Word: spaciousness
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When this is accomplished the cripple will be moved forward into the spacious midsection of the ARD-3. The water will then be pumped out of the bottom tanks and the ARD3 will rise, lifting the damaged battleship high and dry so that repairmen can get at its vital parts. The ARD3 will t»e so big that it can take care of anything the U. S. Navy now has afloat, and almost anything smaller than the Queen Mary that it is likely to launch...
Persia. The great palaces and spacious grounds at Persepolis were the Versailles of ancient civilization, from which more than 2,400 years ago Darius and his son Xerxes ruled the greatest empire their world had seen. Unearthing palace buildings on the quarter-mile-long artificial terrace, Dr. Erich F. Schmidt of Chicago's Oriental Institute came upon two magnificent pieces of wall sculpture, each 20 ft. long. They depicted the same scene, a royal audience, as viewed from right and left. Xerxes stands behind Darius, seated in an ornate chair. Their figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize...
...Cadogan Gardens, but the estate agent's sign over their door read cheerfully: "LONG LEASE FOR SALE." An army of re-furbishers was busy in Admiralty House on Whitehall, cleaning and redecorating the official residence of the First Lord. Its 20 rooms are lofty, dignified and spacious, ideal for entertaining in the grand manner of the British Admiralty...
...with aluminum glaze and gleamed like silver. Definitely and handsomely the keynote of the Queen Mary's modernistic decoration is wood, wood, wood. Witty new Member of Parliament A. P. Herbert, famed Punch contributor, wrote on sailing day, "As for the cabins-as for the eiderdowns, and the spacious beds, and the cupboards and looking-glasses and bathrooms . . . some British Homer should . . . describe where grew the trees that gave those polished panels, what cunning joiner it was that fitted them, what sempstress, nay, what silkworm it was that worked upon the bedcovers...
Sedate maiden ladies! Perhaps Mr. Caffrey was seeking the spacious home of some wealthy widow wherein he might rest his weary bones. But our sedate maiden ladies tend to their own knitting and ARE particular with whom they associate...