Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will contain a series of short flights of stairs rising from the ground and connecting both the middle and upper promenades of the main structure. The ground and middle corridors will have arched windows, while the top corridor will have rectangular openings leading out upon a Tuscan balcony. The roof of the upper promenade will be continued to form the roofs of the towers. It will be of concrete and will be supported by columns, 14 feet high, resting on pedestals which are already built in the parapets between the upper promenade and the last row of seats. It will...
...clock today Professor W. M. Davis will explain the use of the Foucicault pendulum hung in the well of the staircase from the roof of the geological wing of the University Museum. He will show how the latitude may be determined by the apparent deviation of the pendulum from its plane of swinging which is caused by the rotation of the earth...
...Zoological Club. On the Ependymal Groove in the Roof of the Brain. Mr. P. E. Sargent.--Short Papers. Room 1, fourth floor, Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...Roof," from "Near a Whole City-Full...
...order that a strong light may be obtained the ceiling is composed almost entirely of glass and a portion of the roof directly above is also of the same material. Around the three sides of the room are nine large sets of windows which admit of an abundant entrance of light. The seats in the lecture room consist of oak chairs with a side desk which can be lowered and raised at will. The walls of the room are finished in red with a relief of white columns...