Word: roof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Philadelphia has this year found hockey enthusiasts flocking to her, because of the erection of the mammoth Ice Palace now nearing completion at Forty-fifth and Market streets. Although operations were begun only on October 28, the steel work is up, parts of the roof have been put on, and the management hopes to be able to start skating on or about Christmas...
...Poet", however, will stand a few adverse comments. It had no definite character; it added nothing to the picture. There were no specific faults, except the wall cloth in rear of the altar, but the totality seemed rather far from the spirit of the play. The view over the roof tops from the Poet's window was extremely good, and in some measure atoned for the colorless interior. The lighting was good and well managed...
...Ware collection of Blaschka Glass Models and Plants will undoubtedly be the first object of interest to the visitor. It is on the third floor of the centre of the University Museum; the University Museum is the large building with the green roof directly north of the Yard on Oxford street...
...keeper. "Eddie" Morris is his name, and in his time he has signalled to the score-board the story of every University game played in the Stadium. In the course of the last two decades he has communicated to the spectators, the telegraphers, and the press reporters on the roof of the Stadium the details of some of the greatest plays in gridiron history. "Jim" Thorpe, Brickley, "Ted" Coy, "Vick" Kennard, Shevlin and Sprackley are only a few of the historic players whose feats he has recorded...
...come and go with no thought of anything but themselves. With this object of educating the lower classes into a realization of Harvard spirit, the baseball mass meeting was held. And it was a great success as far as it went. The men who were there made the roof of the New Lecture Hall shake. But there weren't enough of them. There must be more at the events this afternoon...