Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found the old college in shabby shape. While Ohio State at Columbus was booming along with 7,500 students, Ohio University's enrollment had dwindled to a mere 1,395. It was stumbling along on a $1,450,000 budget-far below what it needed. The roof of historic old Cutler Hall leaked, and the building had been condemned. Other buildings needed cleaning, painting, and repairing. Patches of bare ground showed through the campus turf like moth holes in a bearskin rug. Not surprisingly, faculty and student morale was in the dumps...
...draw some comparison between the two. The immediately striking difference is that the Royal Philharmonic has almost perfect balance. Although the Boston Symphony is a great orchestra it is well known that its brass section plays too loudly. Whenever the first trumpeter for Boston aims his trumpet at the roof and lets go, everyone in the Hall hears him above the orchestra. No comparable incident occurred yesterday afternoon...
...Denise Darcel talks carefully broken English. There are a good many indistinguishable songs and dances, and now & then there is a refreshing change from sex to seasickness or sanitation. The revue also shows its ancestry at moments by having people climb into boxes or letting feathers fall from the roof. Out of it all emerges one pleasant dance number about snow men, and one entertaining number requiring a palm tree tied to a chair...
...thundered, "but it was the Democratic Party that gave you the social system which enabled you to buy the cars." While Chicagoans headed home for dinner, the voice continued to sound. When traffic began to thin out, a powder-blue Ford station wagon with four loudspeaker horns on its roof wheeled off from Archer and Western and headed across town...
...pillboxes. But all were unoccupied. We crossed a road strewn with hunks of shrapnel and reached the side of a five-story building once occupied by the Jinsen Milling Co. It was riddled with gunfire, a fire roared in the top two stories and black smoke billowed from its roof. Further on, in a shattered, deserted street, we saw a large cartoon snowing a powerfully muscled arm holding a spindly little guy labeled "USA" while another strong arm hit him over the head with a gigantic hammer. "Some propaganda, huh?" said Sergeant Barnett...