Word: roof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...steel latticework tower supporting wireless antenna is located on each end of the flat runway on the roof of the building. The new aerial is as large, if not larger, than any used in the United States; it is made up of five wires stretching from the 100-foot standards above the Laboratory across Langdell Hall to Walter Hastings Hall, a distance of over 600 feet. A message has been received from Berlin, a distance of 3,000 miles, and several times stations on the Pacific Coast have been heard distinctly...
...Lamont's descriptive essay on Pekin leaves the reader with vivid impressions, of swarming Oriental crowds, of a blue-tiled temple roof, of the distant throbbing of a great drum. So well rendered is its portrayal of the city's Kaleidoscopic charm and immemorial antiquity, that one wishes the narrative strain of its opening had been more consistently sustained...
From the rear of the entrance hall, a monumental staircase leads to the second floor which contains the main reading room. This room, accommodating 336 readers, is 192 feet by 40 feet and extends 43 feet to the roof. The flooring is of cork, and not only enables quiet walking, but is also very comfortable to the feet. The government, history, and economics reading rooms, which will contain most of the collections now in the history room in Harvard Hall, is on the ground floor...
...smaller board for orchestral effects will cover half the orchestra pit, which will be 85 feet long by 20 feet wide. In order to protect these boards and the other permanent stage fixtures a large water-proof and fireproof awning has been devised in addition to the regular roof of the stage...
Arthur Wilson in "Once from a Window" entertainingly describes an early spring dream of a very young bachelor and philosopher. The scene is among the roof tops surrounding Charles street jail. The heroine is seen but once and the "chatter of her blown hair" is "untranslatable...