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Word: roof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saying goes, the roof felt in on Bova in the final 20 minutes. Hubbard slammed in his third counter on a beautiful backhand as he crossed in front of the cage; then Clasby, a rough-and-tumble player, poked one in as he came from behind. Two of the other scores, however, appeared to have Bova completely faked out, and he was relieved in the final minutes. M.I.T., with only two playing lines, seemed to be all tired out by that time...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Crimson Wallops Engineer Six, 12-1 | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

...that night, a shower of stones fell on the roof of an isolated police station just across the dung-strewn road from Can Town, and within seconds the police were inundated by Arab rioters. "They appeared as if by magic," said one of the eight policemen on duty, "out of the ground, from holes in the wall. It was unbelievable. One minute the street was deserted. The next minute it was filled with a horde of madmen screaming for blood." The police fired at short range killing some 20 Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: To Create Martyrs | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...sanitary facilities; the nearest public bath is six miles away, but Sabino and his wife have not visited it this year. The only sign of civilization that the second biggest tin mine in Bolivia has brought to Huanuni is a 25-watt lamp that hangs incongruously from the thatched roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Republic up in the Air | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Soon after the building was acquired by the College in 1935, it was sacrificed, or at best modified, to the demands of what seemed to the Yard like a new-fangled science--Astronomy. The Dana House became the College observatory, its rooms filled with instruments. On the roof was a revolving turret on wheels for telescopic use ("Caboose" snorted Felton) and a transit mechanism rested in the main room...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Dana-Palmer House | 12/10/1952 | See Source »

...took fixes on a marker in the Blue Hills, 11 miles away in Milton, but when an enterprising farmer built a barn next door, it cut off the view. By no means non-plussed, the University acquired right of way to the barn, and chopped a hole in its roof for sighting purposes...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Dana-Palmer House | 12/10/1952 | See Source »

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