Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aside land at a place called Moroka, where 60,000 natives have built their own homes, unaided. In Moroka, there is one lavatory seat for every 250 persons. In Jabavu, one of the better locations, houses are built in blocks of three. The inside walls do not reach the roof, so separate families have no privacy. Any key opens any door. A black family's total average earnings (all members of it work) are ?15 a month; the average white worker's wage is ?50 a month...
...from Saône (see above) to San Antonio, but pastoral problems are similar the world over. William Stuart McBirnie, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, doesn't have to resort to high-diving to keep a roof over his congregation's head. But his success has been as notable, in its way, as Father Simon's. Though his church was started only two years ago with 94 members, it now has 929. Trinity Baptist has built a $56,000 fellowship hall, a $6,500 youth building, a $17,500 parsonage and a goo-capacity amphitheater...
...Pole who reached Trieste and freedom by caching himself in the space between the ceiling and roof of a train coach on the Danzig express...
Fowl Play. In Spokane, after Dennis Williams set up a stuffed owl on the roof, the cooing pigeons which had been harassing him nightly moved out and two live, hooting owls moved...
Last Tuesday the roof fell in on a hapless Thayer squad as they were buried by a powerhouse Grad School team...