Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roof Rose. All went well until 9:45 one morning last week. Then the mixture blew up like a bathtub full of nitroglycerin...
...Connor plant, a low, white brick-fronted building, simply disintegrated. Its roof rose into the air and flew apart, its framework splintered, its walls bulged and burst in one enormous moment of concussion and incandescence. The walls and roofs of nearby buildings were smashed; automobiles caved in on the streets...
...Alumni Bulletin, whose departments are now under the same roof for the first time in 49 years, will continue to occupy part of the first floor of the Dunster Street building. But with the passing of the local housing shortage, University officials who are now living in the second and third floors will vacate...
This would pave the way for the centralization under one roof of the varied activities of the Alumni Association, the Associated Harvard Clubs, the Harvard Fund Council, the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Reunion Committee and the Commencement Marshal...
This dramatic, unsolicited windfall came from 76-year-old Banker Thomas William Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. It was almost enough to cover the largest item on the list of needed cathedral reconstruction: $520,000 to repair the roof and reface the Caen stone, damaged by centuries of British weather as well as bombs. (The stone was brought from Normandy to rebuild the 6th Century church which had been destroyed by fire...