Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three Smoothies (Bob, Little, and Babs Ryan) were formerly with the Fred Waring Orchestra, and with Kate Smith. Marianne, a blonde bonanza, used to warble with Will Osborne's band. The Smoothies are currently performing at the Latin Quarter; Marianne is at the Bradford Roof...
Within the skeleton walls of the dance hall lay a heap of debris. The roof had crashed upon the dancers. Fires licked over the ruins. Rescue squads fashioned a runway over plaster and planks and bodies to get out the mangled living and dead. Those who had stood at the milk-bar counter had been killed. Dead and injured sprawled in every neighboring doorway...
...roof of Asia," where the empires of Russia and Britain touch the borders of China, lie the wastes of Turkestan-also called, in its Chinese area, by the Chinese name of Sinkiang. It is a land of great deserts, oases, of some 4,000,000 Moslems and Chinese; a nomads' land of some 12,000,000 sheep, 2,000,000 horses, 50,000 camels; a land whose exact area is unknown (estimates: 400,000 to 700,000 sq. mi.). Into this vast area, no foreign journalist had been allowed to go for many years. Out of it had come...
...girl reporter, gave her an earful. Said he: "I went through the fifth grade and I think that is sufficient." When she soberly recorded this in the Spokesman-Review, Lewis (Yale A.B. '07, Litt.D. '36) stomped into the paper's city room to raise the roof. The girl reporter fled in tears as Lewis blatted: "My dear young child . . . you should have known . . . My God . . . I've been called nine kinds of s. o. b., but I've never been called an illiterate. . . ." An older newswoman promptly gave the Nobel Prize winner a proper scolding...
...roof prism is used in a gun sight's elbow telescope, which enables an anti-aircraft gunner, for example, to look horizontally into the eyepiece and see his target overhead. The elbow telescope inverts the image; the roof prism's function is to turn the image right side up. Roof prisms are thum-sized, polished crystals whose two top facets are shaped like a peaked roof. In manufacture, a piece of glass is first sawed roughly to shape, then ground to exact proportions by a delicate hand. In the final product, every facet must be absolutely flat...