Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greenhouse, 19 x 8 ft., has insulating walls consisting of two iron sheets with the 6-in. space between them filled by tightly packed sawdust. Only the south side of its roof is of glass. Heat & light are provided by ten 500-watt lamps which hang close over the plants in double rows and can be raised as the plants grow higher. A thermostat turns on the lights if the temperature drops below 62°, turns them off at 68°. Even a little sunshine keeps the insulated structure warm enough to keep the lights off. On the average...
...Institute has an $1,800 triangular quartz prism for studying the effect on plants of various wavelengths of light. Another equipment item is a huge, mobile frame, shaped like a dirigible hangar carrying powerful lights in the roof. It can be wheeled over a greenhouse to observe plant behavior under continuous 24-hour illumination. It has been learned that barley, cabbage and clover subjected to such treatment keep on growing 24 hours a day but that tomato plants quit, light or no light, and rest five to seven hours...
...Chicago, at the annual meeting of the Izaak Walton League, the liars' division competed along the usual lines for the prize (a key to a sardine can) for telling the tallest fish story. In Los Angeles, Engineer L. M. Crow went up to the roof of a 14-story downtown skyscraper to empty and clean the water tank. He opened the outlet valve and out flopped a six-inch striped, small-mouthed bass...
Roosevelt Inspiration. To the Chicago Convention which had just nominated him for President in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt made a speech of acceptance in which the following passage fairly raised the roof with applause: "Throughout the nation men and women . . . look to us here for guidance and for more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth." To most Chicago delegates those words were just mouthfilling rhetoric, a noble sentiment to be approved but not literally practiced. But when Huey Long heard them, they sounded like an inspiration. He filed that effective Rooseveltian appeal away in his memory...
...with the supporters of his onetime allies, struck. The staff of a Havana insane asylum walked out, leaving inmates to themselves. Crowed bantam Generalissimo Batista: "This strike is a disgrace to the civilization of Cuba." He sent out his soldiers to scour Havana, sent Army planes swooping over the roof tops...