Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the Armistice quantities of tiny 2-lb. bombs were discovered in Germany by Allied commissioners. They were found to be Thermite bombs which do not explode but silently produce one of the hottest known chemical reactions, easily burning through a slate roof. Many authorities on the next war consider that while gas bombs will wreak gruesome horror, more actual damage will be done by Thermite bombs...
...such essential goodness could have amassed a fortune in the City," Collector Oppenheimer became himself an expert. For his own collection, he bought nothing but famed, time-honored drawings of unquestioned value, finally had to move to a bigger house to get all his art possessions under one roof...
...giant loudspeaker stood on the roof of a hangar at Mineola, L. I., last week, and radio and sound engineers trooped out to have a look, listen to its monstrous bray. Developed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the apparatus resembled a big searchlight. When it and 18 others like it are mounted soon atop a 100-ft. tower, their combined blast will be the loudest sound ever produced...
...Youngs were plain Nebraska farmers. Old Grandpa Young had raised three healthy sons and always managed to keep a roof over his head and remember to say grace even at breakfast. Grandma Young had always regretted that she did not have a daughter to sew for. Even Great-Grandma Young remained on the scene, a little feebleminded, imagining visitors were long-dead members of her family...
...Anthony is living with resentful, brown-haired Helen Ledwidge in the south of France when the story opens, and he has, Author Huxley establishes with his backward glances, good reasons for avoiding a clear look at his own past behavior. Helen and Anthony are making carefree love on the roof when a grotesque accident violently deflects the course of their lives. A dog falls from an airplane flying overhead. "A strange yelping sound punctuated the din of the machine. Anthony opened his eyes again and was in time to see a dark shape rushing down towards him. He uttered...