Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leverett House recently inaugurated a deck tennis court on the flat roof of the Dining Room. Work on the project has been in progress for some time; with its completion last week, Leverett became the possessor of the only deck tennis court in the College...
This house, of course, was never the home of Stephen C. Foster-in fact, no member of the Foster family ever lived a day under its roof. My father was Morrison Foster, Stephen Foster's brother, and we have ample records, contemporary and documentary, showing that the '"White Cottage" where Stephen Foster and my father both were born was located on the exact spot where a brick building called the Stephen C. Foster Memorial Home, at No. 3600 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, now stands. The actual little white frame cottage where my father and his brother Stephen were born...
...England, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh piloted an airplane of his own, a new black & orange 200-h.p. touring monoplane which he tested at Reading Airdrome. Built secretly to specifications prepared by himself and Designer Frederick George Miles, the ship is equipped for blind flying, fitted with a transparent, sliding roof, tandem seats convertible into bunks...
Anthony Grzebyk is the biggest man in the Plymouth automobile plant in Detroit. He stands 6 ft. 4½in., weighs 300 lb., measures 48 in. around the waist. His towering bulk, his stolid face are familiar to nearly every worker under the 22 acres of Plymouth roof. He works on the assembly line in the evening shift, arriving a half-hour early just as the day shift is quitting at 3:30 p. m. To day shift and to evening shift he is known simply as "Big Tony...
...Institute of Geographical Exploration, at 9 o'clock tonight. His lecture is the first in a series of three describing various aspects of modern scientific geographical discovery. Free admission tickets may be obtained at the Institute. Bradford Washburn '33, will give the second lecture December 16, entitled "Over the Roof of the Continent...