Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From ground floor to roof, the long South Wing of the Biological Laboratories building is occupied by the Department of Physiology. The comparatively new field of General Physiology, which has gradually emerged from the union of Botany and Zoology, has here the apparatus and the space it needs for unhampered development...
...Station consists of an excavation in solid rock 22 feet square, with the floor 15 feet beneath the earth's surface and the roof covered with six feet of rock and gravel. It is completely lined with concrete walls two feet thick, and the delicate recording instrument will be placed on concrete piers 30 Inches high, and five feet wide. This insulation will insure almost perfect recording of earthquakes, as the station will be entirely free from traffic disturbances, temperature changes, and all other interference...
...There is no security here for the family that is in trouble because of unemployment; while abroad, no matter how serious the distress is, people know that at least they will have a roof over their heads and something to eat. In the United States, we have all of the bad features of the dole and none of the good features. We are depriving the destitute unemployed of the opportunity of managing their own affairs by giving them relief in the form of food orders and other specific grants. This takes from people the privilege of making decisions about...
...Richey said: "We have conceded nothing yet." Mrs. Hoover was preparing a buffet supper when Jack McDowell, Stanford's alumni secretary, came out and read the message of defeat. After a moment of silence, every one applauded, meaning to acclaim the loser's gallantry. Floodlights on the roof lighted the faces of several hundred Stanford students who now were massing around the house. "S I S S-B O O M-A H. . . . HOOVER!!" roared the students...
Three models have been produced to date: a four-room, red brick Georgian house with green slate roof and green shutters; a white stucco town house with a blue door arched with brick; a pink brick house with a shop on the ground floor, an apartment above. Each house is about two feet square, wired for electricity with a tiny fixture in the ceiling of each room. Encouraged by the success of these, Delano & Aldrich talents were bent last week on two new models: a larger business block with a restaurant and grocery on the ground floor, and an even...