Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feeling responsible for the loss, the Commonwealth donated $23,000 for the "new" Harvard Hall, to be designed by the Governor himself. Ten years later the library and the lecture halls became the home for Revolutionary supplies and soldiers who stripped a thousands pounds of lead from the roof to make musket balls. The University issued a bill for L342 to the new government...
...affronts to authority. Students also were drawn to the tower containing the bell which tolled for rising, classes, and chapel services. Souls seeking revenge assaulted the bell with gunpowder, froze it with water, and stole its tongue. Police pursued one assailant, Joseph McKean, who raced down the slanted roof and leaped, four stories above the ground, to the roof of Hollis. Never caught, he later became a Boylston Professor of Rhetoric...
ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD, by Wilfred Skrede (223 pp.; Norfon...
Then a long black Cadillac with a transparent roof whisked the official party across Washington. On the north portico of the White House, President and Mrs. Eisenhower waited. Greeting the First Lady, Magloire bowed in the Continental gesture of kissing her hand...
...take away from its original beauty." He even objected to feast-day processions. "I am deeply shocked," he wrote his superiors, "by the neopaganism of the masses." Father Dubois did not believe in collections, either, never pleaded for money to buy a new altar cloth or fix the roof, and packed his eight Sunday services with fiery sermons. As time went on, the peasants began to like their abbe. Watching him striding up the mountain trails, Bible in hand, the wind whipping his cassock about his knees, many thought he looked inspired...