Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood at attention 22 hours until he fell, then hit while lying down with the side of a hatchet . . . interrogated for three hours with a spotlight six inches from his face, ordered to confess while a pistol was held at the back of his head; placed under a roof drain all night during a rainstorm; left without food three days and water eight days; . . put before a firing squad and given a last chance; hung by the hands and feet from the rafters of a house...
Save the rain which falls on the canvas roof...
...Rights had several unique features, e.g., Moses' tomb ("No man knows where he is buried, and why not here?"), a rainmaking machine on the roof for poetic inspiration, and a funeral pyre intended for Joaquin's eventual use. The place ran on Joaquin's Law: no whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple...
...drive to put a roof on the rink, started this summer by Alexander H. Bright '19, was postponed for a year, and it is believed that administrators may want to dedicate the rink at the time the roof...
Only one of the three floors is fully occupied at present. This one, the third floor, is being used for work in electromagnetic radiation, solid state physics, and physical electronics. The group experimenting in electromagnetic waves also uses a penthouse on the roof of the building for antenna research. A unique feature of this installation is a ground-screen on top of the penthouse that will give the scientists the equivalent of an infinite plane for their experiments...