Word: roof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...weather inside of four-and-twenty hours. The people of New England are by nature patient and forbearing, but there are some things which they will not stand. Every year they kill a lot of poets for writing about "Beautiful Spring". I like to hear rain on a tin roof. So I covered part of my roof with tin, with an eye to that luxury. Well, air, do you think it ever rains on that tin? No, air; skips it every time. Mind, in this speech I have been trying merely to do honor to the New England weather...
...will be one glorious Garden Party in the Union. No, dear readers, this is not to be a common or Garden Party, but, such is the ingenuity of the men who are at the bottom of it, it will have all the attractions of a Beer Garden, Public Garden, Roof Garden, Fruit Garden and Mary Garden combined...
...balance room, a dark room and an apparatus room. These rooms have been arranged very compactly and easy access may be had from any one to another. On the top floor are located four large and two small chemical laboratories, two balance rooms and two dark rooms. The roof is flat and of the practicable type, available for experiments requiring open...
...building faces south and is rectangular in shape, 40 feet wide by 72 feet in length. There will be a basement, a sub-basement for experiments needing constant temperature and pressure, and three other floors. The roof will be flat, thus available for experiments requiring open air. High ceilings and perfect lighting conditions will be features of the basement proper, which are possible by having all but four feet above the ground. Its walls are of gray granite and the deep pit is constructed of solid concrete. All three upper stories will be made of dull Harvard brick. The latest...
...slating of the roof was finished a week ago and after the carved panels were set into place over the main entrance the scaffolding was taken down. The only work left to be done on the exterior of the building is the final pointing up of the brick work and the laying of the limestone slabs which are to form the base of the iron balustrade on the front porch...