Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building will be four stories high, the first story being granite, and the other three red brick, with a slate roof. The dimensions will be approximately 130 feet by 56 feet. The front of the building will have four large wood pilasters of about the same size as those in the rear, and two smaller pilasters, one on each side of the door. The style of architecture will be Georgian, and will conform to a large degree with the buildings in the Yard...
...rest and a gathering of new impetus. However, till now, I have not seen the time when I believed that I could rightly allow the activities of the 47, Workshop to cease for a year. Last Spring, a fire in the attic of Massachusetts Hall seriously burned the roof--admittedly, for this the 47 Workshop was in no way responsible. The Harvard Corporation, however, decided that instead of making temporary repairs they would carry out a long-considered plan to restore Massachusetts Hall to its original use as a dormitory. At the moment there is no space available in which...
...goods store, and was a failure at it. His wife scrubbed the floor, harangued the children, cooked the food, ate her heart out. On the day Knapp lost his position he came home to find his house on fire; he climbed up on the icy roof, praying that he would slip. He did. Down to the pavement he fell, injured his spine, with resulting paralysis of the legs. The next week Mrs. Knapp went to the store, got a job in the cloak-and-suit department, worked to the top until she was making three times as much...
...calling a conference as soon as a favorable opportunity presented itself; that the Government would, if it received no support, continue with the building of the Singapore base (TIME, Dec. 24). House of Lords. Their Lordships were somewhat disturbed by a violent thunderstorm and a leak in the roof above the Strangers' Gallery. Plumbers were on strike, so a bucket brigade was formed, to prevent the floor of the chamber, in which a discussion of the budget was in progress, from being flooded. Their Lordships' toes were thus kept...
...unless their dividend rates were fixed. All commodity prices would rise. Another basis for money all over the world would have to be discovered, legislated upon, adopted. America, the richest nation in the world, would find herself loaded with tons of yellow metal useful only to fill teeth or roof houses...