Word: width
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened with a few introductory remarks barely audible above the conversing and chair-scraping on the floor, and an invocation followed. Then the head table underwent a complete change. As the toastmaster read off the names of the dignatories, they rose and, pinpointed by an orange spotlight, walked the width of the stage, down the few steps to the floor, and sat themselves at one of the round tables. Each table on the floor sent one person in return up to the dias. "The backfield should be down there," said the toastmaster, "and the workers up here...
...much for the inhabitants. The University's third largest House is well equipped and well appointed. Its rooms are among the largest in the College but avoid the height that usually accompanies width in Harvard buildings...
...actual practice, the Overseers let the faculty have its way on most questions, even if the board reviews its conclusions. But this statement of the Bradford group emphasizes that the board does not want common practice to decrease the width of its unlimited power...
Though Robert Frost's paternal ancestors have been New Englanders for eight generations, the man who speaks with the voice of New England was born in exile-a continent's width away in San Francisco.* His father, a brilliant, erratic rebel who graduated high in his class at Harvard, had run away from a law career to edit a San Francisco newspaper, and became a Republican-hating Democrat. Frost remembers his father as "a wild man" who gave him many a whipping, remembers eating many of his lunches in saloons while his father talked politics...
...admission tickets, the seating capacity is 1600. It was 2200 before the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942 and the University may apply for a concession. The figure is based on fire prevention regulations that there be six square feet per person on the floor and a two-foot width of egress for every 100 persons...