Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crewmen are usually noted for sportsmanship, and Columbia rowers are testing this reputation. Two Lions have opened a bank account under the name of "Oorsmen United" to help Dartmouth replace the shells destroyed when the Indian boathouse roof collapsed on March 15. Every oarsman is asked to contribute a dollar to the fund...
...H.A.A. does not have the funds to build and endow an artificial surface, even without a roof. The refrigerating machinery, the foundation and actual structure, and the upkeep costs add up to more than the already-extended University treasury can take. The saving from the Arena rent would be only a drop in the bucket towards the project...
Three days later (it took time to soothe his mother), Dubkin spent the night in his "grotto." He arrived just before dark. The grown bats were away hunting insects, but the young ones were at home, hanging like furry grapes on the roof or taxiing on the musky-smelling floor. Lulled by their squeaks, he slept...
...first the White Lady rode through the night clinging to her mother's fur. After five days of this she stayed behind in the grotto. Dubkin often picked her off the roof, and soon she lost fear of him. Sometimes he took her home at night in spite of his mother's protests, and returned her to the grotto just in time for her breakfast. When the White Lady learned to fly, Dubkin watched her lovingly. He caught insects and held them up; she dropped down from the dark sky and picked them out of his hand...
...record. It was true, he said, that Dr. Wallace, driven out of his mind by the Reds' unending and unbelievably thorough "interrogation" sessions, might have committed suicide. The day he died, two other Catholic missionaries, imprisoned at the same place, were shown his body, hanging from the roof of his cell. Strangely, however, there was no discoloration of the face or other signs of suffocation by strangling. His body, on the other hand, was covered with bruises from beatings. Only the Communists, says Father Tennien, know how he died, whether beaten to death by his jailers or driven...