Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the advent of the Student Activities Center, this problem was solved. The club obtained two rooms on the third floor and permission to string up antennas on the roof. There were only two requirements; the club had to put in its own power line and all the wires on the roof at a cost...
...Breath of Spring. In Buckroe Beach, Va., after a contractor quoted Milo Begor a price of $300 to remove a 65-by-15-ft. porch roof and pile the lumber near by, a big wind did it free...
...kitchen that was then the largest in New England. On the second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall, containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes, and stuffed birds. In the cupola on the roof was the College bell, brought over from an Italian convent...
...soldiers of the Revolution, and Harvard Hall became both a storehouse and the commissary for the entire army in Cambridge. Treatment was none too gentle at the hands of the occupying troops and the building suffered considerable damage, chiefly the loss of a thousand pounds of lead from its roof, which the soldiers converted into ammunition for their Revolutionary muzzle-loaders...
With some astonishment, the audience on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria recognized this as the voice of the U.S. State Department. The members of Manhattan's China Institute, which for 25 years had devoted itself to the nonpartisan cause of closer friendship between the Chinese and American people, represented every shade of opinion on the Far East themselves, but none had expected Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Dean Rusk to speak with such firmness...