Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale yesterday suspended three students who used mountaineering tactics to scale the face of Memorial Hall late Wednesday night, but were trapped by police spotlights before they could whitewash huge Y's on the roof of the bell tower...
Sudden Departure. For eight thirsty days Mr. Fairservis and his companions explored the dead city, collecting domestic utensils (knives and pottery) from mud-walled kitchens. In many of the buildings the roof-timbers were still in place. Apparently the city had not been burned or otherwise damaged by invaders. It seems to have been abandoned peacefully and rather suddenly. To judge by the architecture, its last inhabitants were Moslems, but certain decorative details show Greek influence. Mr. Fairservis hopes that its ruins may hide Greek manuscripts preserved by the dry climate...
...Princeton, Howard Johnson's is serving in an unfamiliar Gothic environment without its orange roof, and with only six of its 28 flavors. There is no choice for Princetonians between a "Hot Roast Vermont Turkey Sandwich" and "Delicious Fried Clams." Instead of a waitress beaming down with a menu, a fellow student loads the table with platters of institutionalized cooking...
...turn over every once in a while and suffer an occasional broken rib, but the injury rate is definitely lower for them than it is for the customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear or crash helmet...
...builders of Connecticut's first auto tunnel have thought of everything. They have wired 300-watt bulbs to the roof, and spaced them closer near the entrance, so motorists eyes can adjust slowly from the daylight...