Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several months, the University has been eliminating all its academic frills, and it has recently taken off some of its architectural frills. All the iron ornaments along the peak of the roof on Matthews Hall, have been taken down, and will be given to the government for scrap...
Mementos of a by-gone age of architecture, the decorations were becoming dangerous to passers-by, and to the roof, so the Maintenance Department, decided that it was time for them to go. They have been going over the roofs systematically for several years, taking off out-worn and useless decorations and the newly-sreamlined Matthews is but the latest victim...
...much on the theatre. The nearest it got to the arts was choir singing. But the New England Repertory production of Willer's play brings one very close to Grover's Corners, N. H. The pipe-smoking stage manager seems to have found his old haunts under the sagging roof beams of the Joy Street Playhouse. Even the milkman who bustles across the stage seems to be making his rounds for the umpteenth time...
Cairo, Singapore and Australia, the citation said, "were remarkable for their ac curacy and their courage." After giving the audience (on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria) a little col or on the sinking of the Repulse -the orange-bright explosions of Jap torpedo planes above the calm blue China Sea - greying Cecil Brown remarked: "I think it ... brings more grey hairs to your head to resist the pressures ... of offi cials. . . ." The award to Brown reflected rightful honor on U.S. radio newshawking abroad, which reached its peak in 1941. Other awards showed an equal sense...
Would the boiler blow Dick Tracy through the roof? Would Joe Palooka best the Nazis? In Venezuela such questions called urgently for an answer. But the ships from New York were slow in coming, and many a Venezuelan newspaper was running short of comic-strip mats. While the comic-strip heroes teetered on various brinks, Venezuelan editors heard with dismay that a ship with a supply of mats had been sent to the bottom by a pigboat...