Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Vag had dropped into Mem Hall for various official reasons, but this was something new. After three centuries of Puritanical restraint, the College was using the Gothic barn with the bathroom-floor roof for strictly social ends. Half-horrified and half-pleased, Vag could see tomorrow's headlines in the Globe: HARVARD SUBSIDIZES ROMANCE...
Later, he turned from concrete to steel and glass. Under Henry Ford's influence, he learned to build whole factories as units, getting everything under one roof. Ford also taught him the superiority of vast one-story structures for heavy manufacture, structures that obviated the necessity for carting heavy materials and engines up & down in elevators. For Ford alone Kahn has built approximately 1,000 buildings...
Record: Perfect. However tough the grind, airline pilots love this work. Long known as the cantankerous prima donnas of aviation, pilots formerly raised the hangar roof if a single field light was out or the stewardess forgot the chewing gum. Now they fly over trackless wastes (usually without radio), land on bad fields, sleep in flimsy shanties-and never squawk. And their record grounds everyone: not a single lost plane, not a single accident...
Blitz. Near Elbow Lake, Minn., a bolt of lightning tore through the roof of a schoolhouse, sent a splinter through a globe of the world. The splinter neatly removed Japan, left the rest of the globe intact...
...group of crack Washington correspondents last week practically blew the roof on censorship. They had just finished a 24-day tour of leading war plants as guests of the National Association of Manufacturers. Their wrath was aimed not at N.A.M. but at the six Army officers who accompanied them as censors (of the one Navy censor who went along they thought better...