Word: roof
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...colonnaded north portico five years later. Other Presidents have made other alterations with & without outcry. Jefferson added wing terraces and long rows of one-story "offices," which also served as "meat house, wine cellar, coal and wood sheds and privies." Buchanan tacked on a glass conservatory, Coolidge raised the roof (unnoticeably from the outside) to find room for eight bedrooms...
Uncounted bruised rumps and one crushed roof joined the weather's victim list yesterday in the watery aftermath of the worst ice and snow blitz to hit Cambridge in a generation...
...storm has bombarded the area with a weight of 45 pounds per square foot, according to an estimate of the Blue Hills Observatory of Harvard, splitting the roof of Hollis Hall yesterday, and sending ice water cascading down the four story stair well...
...Concord, and the College buildings were used to house soldiers and supplies. Harvard Hall was not only an ammunition dump, but a kitchen as well, and Holden Chapel lost its ecclesiastical dignity for a while for the good cause of billeting some three hundred troops. Even the lead roof of Hollis Hall had to go; it was melted down to provide revolutionary bullets...
American Youth Hostels, Inc. offers a small group of Ski Hostels for these energetic few. Two dollars will take care of gastronomic needs while an additional 25 cents per night blankets the necessity of a roof overhead. A 15 cent utility charge and an equally small day charge, imposed on those still in the building by 9 o'clock in the morning, complete the hosteler's expenses...