Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building was doomed. Smoke billowed through corridors, and flames (which had started in a defective flue) were rolling up the old-fashioned stair well in the center of the building. As men jumped from their beds and opened doors that were already warm, the fire tore through the roof, rushed crackling along the eaves to the wings. Some students dashed out before it was too late. Some jumped from windows, others tried to climb down the ivy that covered the stone outside. Still others never got out at all. When dawn came, there was nothing left of "Old Kenyon...
...Floor & Roof. FRB's action had been taken with President Truman's approval, though it was thoroughly incompatible with his continued demand for anti-inflation controls. At his press conference the President was asked how he could reconcile the conflicting programs. Said he: the nation's economy was spiraling in two directions at once. Farm prices had fallen, but other prices were still going up. What the nation needed, he thought, was a floor under some prices and a roof over others...
...press coop, Western Union operators bent low to hear the chatter of their instruments above the din. In St. Louis' jammed Kiel Auditorium last week, one of the noisiest collections of bells-cowbells, sleighbells, dinner bells-ever assembled under one roof was ringing the rafters. St. Louis rooters were doing their tintinnabulary best to help St. Louis University's basketball team (ranked No. 2 in the nation) to get revenge against arch-rival Oklahoma A. & M. (ranked...
Davey will undoubtedly be missed on Soldiers Field this spring and next fall. Valpey gives him "a great deal of credit for the speed with which we installed the single wing last fall," and his observation from the Stadium roof during games made him a key man in the Crimson strategic services...
Arising with Drums. In the early 1900s, on every Easter morning, an orchestra hired for the occasion would roll into a kettledrum crescendo which just about lifted the roof off the Middletown (Conn.) Holy Trinity Church. It was Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass. The choir chanted: "I believe in one God . . ." Anda skinny little substitute crucifer, home from boarding school, would tell himself tremblingly: "Boy, I sure...