Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventeen-year-old Tom Lee is a quiet, sensitive "off horse" at a particularly muscular and conformist school; he lives, furthermore, under the roof of a particularly harsh and he-man housemaster. From a little acorn of gossip an ugly scandal soon spreads its entangling branches, with Tom defended only by his housemaster's beautiful, equally off-horse wife. Trying desperately to prove his normality by dating the town tramp, Tom only leaves it further in doubt; and it is the housemaster's wife herself, who at the florid final curtain, prepares to make...
...Conditioned Paint. A bright white paint that substantially reduces the temperature of metal and asphalt roofs in hot weather is being marketed by Coating Laboratories, Inc., of Tulsa. "Koolcote," which consists of four special pigments mixed with "activated" plastic, has kept a metal tank at a temperature of 99½° in tests during 100½° outside temperatures (v. 143° for a tank not Koolcoted). Price: about 6? per sq. ft. for steel surfaces, $150 for the average roof...
Harvard's new hockey rink--scheduled to open this winter--will not have a roof for at least another year, Alexander H. Bright '19 said last night...
Bright, who started a drive to finance the roof last June, said that the lack of funds has stopped the drive, but only temporarily...
...City's West Side as a showcase for American merchandise. The building, rising above the Pennsylvania Railroad's underground tracks, would have more floor space (6,000,000 to 7,000,000 sq. ft.) than any other building in the world, and have a heliport on the roof...