Word: raftered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night which ends up in a fire-gutted tenement. As the camera stalks hunter & hunted about the shadowy ruins, the suspense is drawn out to a fine edge. An intelligent sound track, all ears, brings it to a razor sharpness. When Bobby is finally cornered on a giant rafter, overhanging the gaping cellar, the rotted wood starts giving way. What follows is a breathless, well-executed collaboration between lens and microphone...
With only a quarter as many as This Is the Army's cast of 300, The Army Show provides no breath-taking spectacle of massed men in uniform, no rafter-shaking choruses. Nor has it an Irving Berlin to give it tunes like I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen or This Is the Army, Mr. Jones. But it has the CWACS (Canadian Women's Army Corps) to lend it lure. And it has a twofold function: besides playing Canada's cities to swell the Troops Welfare Fund, it will tour Canada's army...
Systematic study of rings, so that old wood can be dated by its growth patterns, was begun in 1904 by Astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass of the University of Arizona, who was interested in solar activity. Douglass became able to look at a pine ladder or rafter from a prehistoric Indian pueblo, date it exactly as far back as 11 A.D. Sequoia wood from the High Sierra can now be dated back to 1305 B.C. Since the weather, and therefore tree growth, varies from place to place, master tree-ring charts must be worked out for different districts...
Afternoons Witnesses hustled back to Convention Hall, where they had set up everything from a cafeteria to a hospital, sat on hard chairs in 117° heat and were harangued by their rafter-rattling leader, "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford. Twenty lesser gatherings of Witnesses, from Boston and Honolulu, to Seattle and El Paso, heard Rutherford over loudspeakers and leased telephone wires...