Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banks to draw some money on my letter of credit. It was the Dresden bank, once one of the most prosperous in Germany. It was located in an enormous building which was a relic of its former prosperity. It had marble floors, and massive columns supporting a high arched roof. For hours I waited my turn at the crowded window. And when finally my turn came, all the money that that great bank was able to allow me amounted to less than two dollars...
...elder brother, living under the same roof (and this is no mere metaphor) the Bulletin ventures to suggest an abatement in the firecracker brand of undergraduate journalism. The CRIMSON has a good tradition to maintain, a tradition which contains no yellow streak. It is the dally organ, not of its editors alone, but of the entire membership of the University. These editors abide their little hour and go their way, but the tradition of the paper ought to be in their hands a trust. --Alumni Bulletin...
...sight of a miner tamping a highly explosive dynamite cap with his teeth. The foreman is to blame if he permits anyone to work in rooms with insufficient propping or to ride on trips of cars meant only to convey coal. If mines unsafe because of water trouble, poor roof, improper ventilation, and other such deficiencies, are permitted to be worked, the district inspector of mines is in this case at fault. If the owner himself does not see that his mine is decently inspected and that his men are competent, he is as much deserving of censure...
Results of the Yale football game are to be broadcasted over the entire country on Saturday by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company Workmen were busy on the roof of the Stadium throughout the day yesterday, preparing special telephone lines, both local and long distance to various radio stations in the Eastern part of the country. The nearest line leads to the sporting goods store of James W. Brine in Harvard Square, where a reproduction will be given during the game. One of the longest lines leads to a radio station at Washington. Other lines will be connected with various...
...Coolidge attended a morning reception given by Mrs. Henry C. Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, under the glass roof of the Department's propagating house. The occasion was the opening of the Department's annual chrysanthemum show. One of the blossoms was labeled " Grace Coolidge...