Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what goes on right under the roof that makes this the most thrilling circus in years. There is black-haired Rose Gould who, roped by her ankles to two men hanging by their heels, plunges from a great height to within a foot of the tanbark. There are the Idalys, he riding-upside down-a monocycle suspended from the roof, while she hangs from his teeth and does acrobatics. And there is Harold Alzana, who climbs up a half-vertical taut wire to reach the high wire, and then (blithely scorning a net) skips rope upon...
...needled the G.O.P. congressional axmen, branding their appropriation cuts as false economies: "If the foundation of your house needs repair, or if the roof leaks, you know that you are wasting money, not saving it, by failing to make that repair." He put in this category Republican slashes which would curtail reclamation and soil-conservation projects, and force reduction in the number of customs and border guards, tax auditors and labor conciliators...
...such festive days as Easter, José makes early and serious preparation, selecting his assistants with care. He needs 60 strong men, sober, to handle the bells in both towers. When all are in place, he takes his position on the cathedral roof midway between the towers, where he can look through a skylight at the cathedral altar...
...Figge experimented with mice exposed to varying amounts of cosmic radiation. He varied the cosmic ray concentration by contriving a special cage with a thin lead roof, which does not stop cosmic radiation but intensifies its effect. He injected 184 mice of a susceptible strain with a chemical that almost invariably produces cancer, put some of the mice in ordinary cages and some in the special lead-covered ones. Sure enough, the mice exposed to more intense cosmic radiation developed cancer much faster than the others. Dr. Figge's conclusion: cosmic jays, acting on body cells, may help develop...
...only difficulty seems to be in persuading the various organizations eventually to move to the new quarters, and thus consolidate all the dispersed Alumni functions under one roof. As a consequence, crowded Wadsworth House could be left to help satisfy the expanding space demands of the other University offices which now use part of its facilities. Some dichards may plead for the old "serenity" of historic Wadsworth, or insist that the Harvard Club of Boston is an adequate gathering point, but these hardly seem valid objections to a desirable and long-needed plan that should be successfully brought to fruition...