Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uptown Manhattan, devout Russians built, with money donated by the late Tsar Nicholas II, a brick & sandstone Cathedral of St. Nicholas, archiepiscopal seat of the Russian Orthodox Church on the North American continent. Recently, many a passerby in the street gazed upward at the Cathedral's steeply-pitched roof. There, perched on a ladder, a stocky young man wielded tar buckets, rolls of tar paper. He was Very Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Cathedral. For months, rain had been leaking through the roof, damaging the murals and icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral had launched a campaign...
Prince Ludwig, 29, youngest son of the late Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Dowager Duchess Eleanore, impatiently paced the roof at London's Croydon Aerodrome waiting for the arrival of his family from Germany. Grand Duke George, 31, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; his 26-year-old wife, the former Princess Cecile of Greece & Denmark and cousin of England's Duchess of Kent; their two young sons, Prince Ludwig, 6, Prince Alexander, 4, and the 66-year-old Dowager Duchess were all flying to London for the wedding of Prince Ludwig, social attaché in the German Embassy...
...apparently because New York merchants were afraid that Californians would resent being told what to wear by New Yorkers. Mr. Gimbel intends to handle his Californians gingerly. His personnel will be trained in New York but will be 100% native, when the store opens in April. On the flat roof of the building he helped design will be an open-air beauty shop, which Mr. Gimbel feels is the genuine California touch...
...acre area he grew 1,226 Ib. of lush red tomatoes. His giant tobacco plants are especially impressive (see cut). From 25 sq. ft. of water he got 100 cantaloupes, declared this to be 20 times the yield expected from soil. Pushing against the roof of his greenhouse, with its massive roots in water, is an 18-ft. banana plant, now only eleven months old. Dr. Gericke's current researches are directed toward controlling the colors and mineral contents of vegetables by varying the kinds and quantity of salts in the solution. He has grown tomatoes with double...
...order of Kaiser Wilhelm, his cousins in Buckingham Palace were never bombed, although nearby Trafalgar Square was bombed repeatedly. Still in place, but considered useless against today's heavy bombs, is "the Steel Helmet," a steel net supporting layers of sand bags strung under the roof of Buckingham Palace...