Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special house for rats, guinea pigs, and other experimental animals is to be erected to the north of the Institute. There will be aquariums, on every floor where fish will be kept under observation; greenhouses on the roof will enable the Bussey Institute and the botanists to grow and observe plants under special conditions. Photographic rooms, constant temperature rooms and special research rooms are located on every floor...
...Woodley," his Washington home, Statesman Stimson was waiting on the second floor for dinner to be announced when he saw a shadowy form at the window, heard footsteps on the porch roof. Cricket, his Scotch terrier, jumped up, growled a warning. Secretary Stimson threw open the window, rushed downstairs, outdoors, saw somebody sliding down a porch pillar, running away into the night...
...landlady's cousin Mary. After Mr. Hargrave has won a Beaux Arts prize of $5,000 he takes Rachel to Atlantic City where she hopes to find her vanished lover and where Mr. Hargrave hopes to accomplish his end. Neither succeeds. Returned to the kitchen, Rachel jumps from the roof, Mr. Hargrave enacts another one of his hysterical scenes which brought him into prominence in The Spider and Houseparty. With Privileges is meagre theatrical fare...
...earth to be found anywhere in one place and available for reference and study. The building will mount its own wireless plant so that expeditions in remote lands may be in touch with the home base always. Field work and surveying will be taught on the flat roof, which will be designed for that special...
...School of Geography is also under construction on Divinity Avenue, located between the Semitic Museum and the Harvard University Press building, Randall Hall. It will be two stories in height, with a flat roof on which will be placed a chart house. In the rear of the building will be located a lecture room seating 260. A library with a stock room for 80,000 volumes, a map room, chart room, instrument room, and provisions for the study of radio communication and serial photography are to be provided...