Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fleet of six Cambridge fire trucks hustled over to Mather Hall last night at 9 p.m. with sirens screaming. 'While a ladder was raised to the roof, and while students were shouting "I smell it but can't see it," firemen spent five minutes in locating and dousing the blase. The undramatically small leaf are, found in a window well next to the entrance of Mather Hall C, was probably caused by a misplaced cigarette...
...cities, a dead animal in someone's front yard is a tipoff that a still is in operation: the odor of the decaying animal helps kill the smell of hops. Illegal brewing is said to be India's "busiest cottage industry," and every new tin roof is taken as evidence that its owner has supplemented his income by engaging in the liquor trade. India's gangsters, called goondas, glory in such names as The Black Panther, rub out their rivals not with tommy guns but with iron rods, bicycle chains, broken bottles and knives. With bootleg profits...
...October crash of the stock market, in which millions of dollars literally vanished in a day. Among the millions were some $30,000 that Mrs. Feldman had risked from her profits as a milliner. "It took a while for the pinch to really hurt," says Sylvia, "but when the roof fell in, I was appalled-and fascinated. How could something like that happen? How could so much money just disappear? I was damned curious." Sylvia decided to find out for herself...
...plans provide underground parking for half of the units, and, if an attendant were provided, the facility could accommodate almost ninety per cent, Payette said. The parking lot, along with a swimming pool on the roof and patios for the duplex units, contribute to the high cost--tentatively budgeted at considerably over a million dollars, with $200,000 for the garage...
...last of the tickets went in three hours yesterday morning as 500 standing-room-only passes were sold, at $6 each. Standees will be on the roof at the closed end of the Stadium...