Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built himself a laboratory in Dayton, spent his time puttering in it. After 1918 he rarely flew. He had fractured a hip in an early crash, and any vibration caused him excruciating pain. Occasionally an aircraft company asked his advice. He still loved to build gadgets-a rolling roof and self-opening doors for his summer lodge in Canada, an automatic record-changer, a line of mechanical toys which his brother Lorin manufactured. He lived alone-neither he nor Wilbur ever married. Said Orville: "You can't support a wife and a flying machine...
Luis Scott was jailed, but he did not stay in jail long. One night he got out over the roof, scurried away through the jungle and took refuge in neighboring Guatemala. General Somoza had long suspected that the Guatemalans were encouraging Nicaraguan rebels, and last week he came right out and said...
...more pleasant than most. The dormitory (called the "Monastery") is pleasant too. For day-sleeping astronomers, the bedrooms have soundproofed walls and doors and black window shades. The only intruders in this astronomical Eden are the woodpeckers that like to drill away at the Monastery's copper roof...
...winter headquarters in the Arizona desert, which after ten years is "still under construction" by his students. Wright admits that the white canvas ceiling is likely to leak, but it is "translucent and attractive beyond expression." He considers light and space as important to houses as the roof itself...
17th Floor for Growing. On the roof, tenants will be able to run races around a 120-meter track, swim in a pool, lounge in a solarium. Children can do most of their growing up on the 17th floor: romp in a nursery, play games in a playground, train in a gymnasium, or go to classes in a schoolroom. On the seventh floor, parents can shop, eat at the restaurant or drugstore, visit the barber or clinic. "Relieved of the two great burdens of heavy housework and the care of children," Le Corbusier explains, "the family will live a happy...