Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kodaly was as great as that side cut by the New Orleans Rhythm kings in 1922--"Tin Roof Blues." Wolfe and his mates were as relaxed as a good Negro band at its best. All the way through they came in smoothly, just behind the beat (that's what I mean by relaxed). Relaxation is undoubtedly the main stuff in all good playing and very few white outfits have the trick, but I mean these boys really have. Hear this combo by all means. Give a listen too, to their neat v-shaped phrases. They got the gift...
...this arrangement with the Hygiene Building occupying the bottom floors and laboratories, treatment rooms and infirmary under the same roof, the undergraduate health problem would be greatly simplified...
...Bayard Taylor Memorial Hunt, biggest fox hunt ever held in the U. S.; outwitting 140 hounds (seven packs); before 10,000 spectators; on the estates of Pierre S. du Pont and W. Plunket Stewart in Chester County, Pa. After a chase of six miles, the fox jumped to the roof of a shed, climbed through a window, was rescued just as the hounds approached the door. Carried off in a sack, the fox was released after the hounds were called...
...typical of the business on hand was the backlog of one of the big machine tool makers, Niles-Bement-Pond Co., which last fall got out of its antiquated 23-building plant in Hartford, Conn., and moved across town to a new factory under a single roof. N-B-P, which operates the Pratt & Whitney* tool works, last week had a backlog of $8,700,000, up 400% from last year. Its bulky president, 65-year-old Clayton Raymond Burt, who served his toolmaking apprenticeship with big Brown & Sharpe back in the early 19005, like the rest of the industry...
...been working ever since I was 16, and perhaps that's why I haven't had much of a chance to meet many college boys. I used to abhor Harvard men, I thought them dull and conceited; that is, until I came up here to work at the Ritz roof. Since then I've completely changed my opinion because the boy's were simply swell to me then. Now I've determined that if I ever have a son I'll send him to Cambridge...