Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down a broken flight of steps and knocked at a battered wooden door. A woman opened it and urged us to enter. In a room 12 ft. by 16 ft. we found a minor miracle of family planning. Seven people lived, cooked, ate and slept in this space, whose only privacy was a tiny curtained cubicle behind a big brick Russian stove, on top of which a boy slept at night. The room, a salvaged bit of cellar with a 2 by 3 ft. window, was as neat as ninepence...
...Chinese say that their painting is "like vapors and clouds which rise into space, gather around cliffs and drift over wide expanses...
...petition charging that the ship was, in effect, a floating flophouse. Yet the Maritime Commission made no move to withdraw the Marine Flasher or six similar troop-type ships from Atlantic passenger service. It knew that its ships were substandard but it kept them operating only because transatlantic ship space is so scarce...
Reached for comment last night, David M. Little '18, Master of Adams House, stated that the recent ruling would not affect Adams or other Houses with adequate vestibule space. "We are all agreed," he said, "that eating and selling should not mix; but the problem of separating them faces only those Houses with isolated dining halls...
...Space has been found inadequate outside the dining halls in Lowell, Winthrop, and Kirkland Houses. Dunster, Leverett, and Eliot are somewhat better equipped to handle sales and solicitation, but only Adams' facilities are entirely satisfactory...