Word: roof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Briggs Cage has the atmosphere of a florist's greenhouse. The sun comes in through a glass roof and mixes with the rising dust so that breathing becomes a very difficult chore. Oddly enough one man who spends a lot of time in the cage isn't even worried about breathing. Some sport they're playing there with bats and balls is enough to keep him fully occupied...
...Massachusetts Hall seems to be caving in when you look at it, don't let the sag in the roof feel you. It's built that...
Fifty years age the woodwork of the old Mass Hall, built in 1720, and therefore oldest building in the school, was termiter ridden, the structural beams were weak and the roof was collapsing. The building was in such sorry condition that the Board of Directors gave up hope of salvaging it. The new Mass Hall was modeled after the old one-the reproduction was so faithful that even the original sag of the roof was duplicated-and is visible today...
...house on the corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets, it had four other owners before the University bought it in 1903. It then rested for a quarter of a century, housing at one time a group of Cowley fathers who lived an ascetic life and demanded nothing but a roof over their heads. But 64 Dunster Street stood in the way of the projected Indoor Athletic Building, so in December, 1928, 155 years after the Boston Tea Party and 162 years after its erection, Hicks House traveled to its present site at Boylston and South Streets...
...world came fairly close to suicide in World War II. During the London blitz, Eliot spent two nights a week as a fire-watcher on the roof of his office building. From his perch above what he has often called the "unreal city," Eliot observed, with terror and compassion, the relentless fires. Had London's people (and with them, Western civilization) gone down then, Eliot's verse would have served as a magnificent and tender epitaph...