Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, revealed yesterday that the steam tunnels will carry 50 percent more steam in order to "pick up the overload on the present pipes and prepare for new construction."
This was the Bible Belt, but it is no longer. Two generations of Southerners have been moving into cities; the tiny sects have been drying up, and old hellfire revivals are fewer and farther between in the highly organized world of Billy Graham, Oral Roberts and TV. Southern Baptism today...
Mr. Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship, with Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July 18).
As soon as the fire trucks had left Thursday, Buildings and Grounds men were at work putting temporary planking over the place where the roof had been cut away. Permanent repairs of the two burned-out roof timbers, the planks and slate of the roof itself, and the metal flashing...
Roberts confirmed that a roof repairman from his own department had started the fire. The worker was welding drainpipe metal and overheated his torch, so that the wooden supports underneath the roof began to burn, the Superintendent explained.