Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cannon family. Cannon House had been erected on the site of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, so when the Institute was built, Cannon House had to be transported across the street to its present location. This was done in 1930--with one horse. The house was hauled intact--chimney and all--and arrived in near perfect condition...
...ventilation they have built two man-size fans, controlled by carbon monoxide detectors, air analyzers, and ink recorders. The ventilating chimney to the surface was one of the hardest parts...
Thirty-six hours later, Presbrey was passing Minneapolis' Sheridan Hotel when a 90-mile-an-hour gale knocked a 65-ft. chimney onto the hotel, injuring four people. Grabbing the Speed Graphic he always carries in his car ("Photographers are never around when you need them"), Reporter Presbrey was shooting pictures when the ambulances arrived...
Smoke from its stacks and its chimney pots, ash from its blast furnaces hung over its head in a never-dissipated cloud. Smoke curled even from the gashes in its hillsides, where fire burned internally along the coal seams...
Hearth & Home. In London, Alexander Richards, suing for divorce, charged that his wife made life so unbearable that he took a job at the British embassy in Moscow after she had stuffed his best suit up the chimney and snipped the bristles off his shaving brush. In Atlanta, a divorce plaintiff reportedly told the judge that he was already separated from his wife: "She fired at me five times, your honor. I started separating on the first shot. By the fifth shot, your honor, I had completely separated." In London, Raymond Steiner was granted a divorce after charging that...