Word: roof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Folks," said the 18 gentlemen, almost in unison, though they were each under a different roof, "folks, we're enforcement agents. This place is now in the hands of the Federal government. All guests must leave at once. Pay your checks before...
...citizens planned how to beguile northern Democrats into thinking the Houston climate ideal. They planned: a suggestion to all delegates that Houston fashions will demand linen suits; automatic water coolers as effective as nine melting tons of ice each day (15 Ibs. per delegate per day); a heat-resisting roof; eight large fans delivering hourly 36,000,000 cubic feet of air into the hall...
...lingered curiously, glanced at their watches. Behind them were 5,538 miles of the vast Pacific. Before them lay "Aussie"*and safety and, for two of them, secure places in the list of illustrious Australian airmen. They thought of Wilkins, warming his hands after spanning the roof of the world (TIME, April 30); they thought of Bert Hinkler, lone voyager in an incredibly tiny plane (TIME, March 5); they thought back to Sir Ross Smith, pioneer of Australian aviation, who had flown 11,500 miles from England to Australia in 1919. A short hop of 1,795 miles, and they...
...embraced by a tiger, something no other woman had ever dared to do. When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts, because spectators often suspected cruelty to the animals, Mabel Stark was compelled to perform far less hazardous feats, such as descending from a synthetic fire at the roof of the big-top, by parachute, mounted on a horse. Finding this trick too monotonous, she had recently returned to her earlier specialty. When she regained the ability to speak, after the Bangor incident, Mabel Stark assured her friends that she had no intention of giving up her "cat-acts...
...worked for the glory of the team, and he has worked as long as the hero. For hours, beneath the direct rays of a beating sun, and when the rains of November were thrumming a monotonous tattoo on the roof of the baseball cage, he has practised for but one thing: that the Varsity might be great. In return he asks nothing; though, when honor's at the stake, like the heroine of almost any novel, he has been ready always to "go the whole...