Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty years after President Eliot wrote this in his Harvard Memories, the University is faced with another problem of expansion. But this time, it is not one that can be shrugged off by merely raising a roof. School systems throughout the country are overflowing with war and postwar babies. In five years, the advance wave of this torrent will begin pounding at ivied doors. More and more people will want to go to already crowded colleges, and in this demand lies Harvard's problems. It is perhaps the most challenging problem the College has faced in its 318 years: should...
...apartment house has running water only every other day, so the President of Brazil has to keep his bathtub filled as a reservoir for the dry days. Says Café Filho: "It was a tremendous disappointment for my neighbors when they realized that living under the same roof as the President did not mean they were going to get water every...
...team will have a definite advantage this winter, since the nearly-completed roof over the Donald C. Watson Rink assures it of daily practice regardless of weather conditions. It has already made a great difference, according to Coach Weiland, who reports that the squad is in excellent condition in preparation for its opener...
...dispute arose when carpenters insisted on carrying construction materials to the roof themselves, instead of being assisted by laborers. Final decision on the two-day-old strike will come from the Jurisdiction Commission...
...find what lay beneath the surface. Then Professor P. Claudio Sestieri and a gang of laborers set to work (TIME, Sept. 6). From tombs came vivid paintings on stone of household scenes and fighting gladiators. Last summer Sestieri uncovered a small, completely buried building, made a hole in its roof and lowered himself into the stagnant dimness. He was in the central shrine of Hera, Goddess of Fertility, and patron of Paestum. Jars and vases held solidified honey, sacred to Hera (see opposite page). It is likely that no one had entered that shrine for at least 2,500 years...