Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants to know well in advance when to expect trouble. Since magnetic storms are believed to have some connection with sunspots, RCA assigned Engineer J. H. Nelson, who is also an amateur astronomer, to dig into the research job, and built him a small observatory on a roof in downtown Manhattan...
...there are the favorite haunts which the girls visit regularly, including the Cider Mill, a museum about two miles from the campus; the solarium, the discreet roof of Kenyon Hall "for unrestricted sunbathing"; and the Alumnae House pub and Retreat, two campus food dispensaries...
Towards One Roof. With the help of his own church he eventually (1927) brought Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox leaders together for a conference, to consider their differences in doctrine and interpretation. Cried Bishop Brent at that first meeting...
Bishop Brent that day expressed what has come to be the U.S. Protestant Idea. Its outward and visible sign has slowly taken shape into something called "the ecumenical movement"-a tongue-twister derived from the Greek word for "the inhabited world," and meaning, in effect, "all Christians under one roof." It is the movement, as one of its leaders put it, from "the Church-as-men-have-conceived-it toward the Church-as-God-intended-it." The ecumenical movement does not proceed like a crusade, with banners and trumpet calls. It has grown with the pace and persistence of natural...
Specialization. In Chicago, thieves made off with 5,000 diapers from Richard De Fore's diaper service. In Haccombe, England, burglars stole some $1,500 worth of lead plating from a church roof, carefully replaced it with grey rubberoid...