Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imported some from Italy, Sweden and England to launch a new album series, Around the World in Jazz (3 LPs). As might be expected, the Roman New Orleans Jazz Band sticks to Dixieland, noodles around happily with such authentic material as Muskrat Ramble, St. James Infirmary and Tin Roof Blues. Stockholm's Arne Domnerus and Orchestra take a page out of Charlie Parker's bop book. Two English bands play in the old razzle-dazzle style of Ted Lewis. Chief merit of all three importations: enthusiasm...
...floor, six separate labs are insulated by aluminum-painted cork and cooled by chemical refrigerants that circulate from great tanks on the roof. The "Wet Snow" lab, warmest of the six, stays at one degree above freezing, while one man at a time works with snow shipped down by refrigerated trucks from Michigan and northern Wisconsin. The added body heat of a second scientist might melt away an expensive experiment...
...Visiting Gethsemani Abbey this fall, I spent two hours on the guest house roof watching the Trappists (Father Merton included) "employing energies in direct relation to the needs of the hour," the needs being to harvest a crop of tomatoes. These monks, who would put any union-scale group of laborers (or choir Benedictines) to shame with the zeal of their manual labor, would certainly be startled to hear that to become Trappists they had first to be members of an elite...
...economic adviser to private industry. Ill health haunted him. Last week, tired and depressed at 58, he called his wife at a Red Cross meeting and asked her to come home at once. She found him dead on the floor of the bathroom, a bullet hole through the roof of his mouth, the pistol still clutched in his hand...
...Norman H. French of Casper, Wyo., water expert of the U.S. Point Four program, went into the desert with a gang of Arabs and some U.S. earth-moving equipment. Jordan gets some rain, but it usually comes in violent cloudbursts, and the hard soil sheds it like a slate roof. Instead of sinking in, the water roars down the wadies (dry washes) and is lost in the sand...