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...Princeton, Ill., Census Taker F. J. Fletcher, sitting on a farmer's porch, asked: "Does this house need repairs?" The farmer opened his mouth. The porch collapsed...
...perennial problem. For convenience, it should be near the front of the lot, but never looks right there. If put in back, its driveway wastes much of a small lot's area. Most ingenious solution among the LIFE houses: Howe & Brown's garage attached to a covered porch which half conceals it, serves also as a sheltered passageway to the front door...
...dirty Pasig River flowed under part of the Malacañan Palace (an overgrown Filipino stilt-house) in the Philippines. From the porch the Taft boys went swimming, and there Bob was stung by a jellyfish...
...Doell mounted the porch steps, rang the bell. Nobody answered. The front shades were drawn. He rapped sharply on the glass door-panels; still no answer...
...floor called the Lincoln Room came in time to resemble second-hand book stores. In the first two years alone Carl Sandburg went through more than a thousand source books and marked them for copyists, of whom he had two at a time working downstairs in the glassed-in porch. His pretty, white-haired wife, Paula, and three daughters helped with the files. Gutted and exhausted books went to the barn...