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Perkins said he and a number of other Housemasters had also noted the problem. "I saw nearly 100 couples in the Lowell House courtyard at about 8:15 last Saturday, waiting for the dance to begin. It was nice weather, so there was no problem. But there would have been a problem if the weather had not been so. But the weather won't always be so nice, so we all felt that it would be best to allow the students this extra half hour so that they wouldn't be walking around in the streets for a half hour...
...fact that there was nothing of the sort to chronicle . . .Who was the editor who, not with the traditional blue pencil of his kind but with the rewrite man's typewriter, was hurled out of his window four flights into the street, or was it a courtyard? He must have had a name. There must be a date to the crime. In short, who, when, where to substantiate your fabricated...
...fabrication is the defenestration of Presente's Editor Jorge Pino Sandoval, who tried to print such chronicles in 1948, was tossed from the fourth floor into a courtyard by thugs, suffering severe injuries...
Wheelhouse. Oldest part of the grim little hamlet was a "broch tower": a crude donjon keep. Beside it was a walled courtyard. For shelter against the rough climate, they had a "roundhouse" that was roofed along its circular outer walls, leaving an open space for a fire in the middle...
...Picts grew slightly more sophisticated, they developed a better dwelling: a "wheelhouse" with radial, spokelike partitions supporting a massive roof of stone and turf. When the village was fully developed, the courtyard was crammed with five of these stone igloos...