Word: roof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Originally intended for a graduate college, Johns Hopkins reversed the process gone through by Harvard. It built the roof and then the rest of the house, for it attempted the college for undergraduates only after it had begun graduate work. In medical research it has long been preeminent and I believe that the research methods of the medical school will be extended to all fields of graduate study. For long the universities of the country have prepared men for research and have seen them for-sake that research for industry. Recent endowments of Johns Hokpins will enable it to maintain...
...Director of the Budget Lord recommended to Congress an appropriation of $50,000 for mending leaks in the roof, insulating electric wires and replacing sagging beams in the White House...
...century. The dust of years lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider drop from the lofty roof and weave an endless web from darkness into darkness. Memory fills the hall in brooding melancholy, and protests against almost every possible new occupant of her sanctuary...
...From the roof of the CRIMSON building the sun looked like a new moon. At breakfast tables and on the way to examinations a frequent comment was to the effect that the phenomenon was "not half as effective as any moonlight night...
...Terrific roof-raising yells greeted Mussolini. Deputies rushed at him and bore him out of the Chamber shoulder high while salvo upon salvo of cheers boomed out from the overhead galleries. It was conceded to be Mussolini's greatest triumph...