Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...junk outwardly orthodox in every detail from the staring eyes on its squat prow to the curling dragons on its 30-foot poop, from the lacquered weathervanes on its raked masts to the enormous rudder. Inside it will be a junk de luxe, built of solid teak with cargo space subdivided into ten double staterooms with connecting baths, main saloon, dining saloon, galley with an electric refrigerator. The forecastle will quarter some 20 Chinese seamen. Subscribing Shipmates subject to seasickness may pay the extra cost of having their bunks hung on gimbals like a binnacle. There will be twin Diesel...
...President of the U. S. Three dice are rolled, the total on each roll entitling the player to stick colored pins in a big map of the U. S. Each State has an arbitrary seven counties, except a few in the East which have only four for lack of space on the map. Count is by electoral vote, and the importance of the State is roughly indicated by the number of dice points required to win one county. Thus while it takes only one point to win a county in Arizona, nine are needed in New York, eight in Pennsylvania...
...historic museums, like the Louvre or the Metropolitan, when time had verified them. Besides Mrs. Rockefeller, founders of the Museum of Modern Art included Miss Bliss, Mrs. W. Murray Crane, A. Conger Goodyear, Editor Frank Crowninshield, Paul J. Sachs of Harvard's Fogg Museum. Gallery space was rented in the Heckscher Building, and on the advice of Professor Sachs, lean, 27-year-old Alfred H. Barr Jr. was hired as Director...
...experienced pilot this snow-planing is no more difficult than flying with wheels. Safe landings can be made on any space of open ground, and if the space is limited, a plane may be mushed in to a complete stop in 200 feet...
Will the Yard and the Houses be open for habitation when the undergraduates come back early for the celebration? If not, where will they be able to stay in Cambridge when the available space is being bid for among the "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard"? These are practical questions which will worry undergraduates...