Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuing along the same wall beyond the low-slung net into the hazard court, are other recesses called galleries and doors. Behind the receiver is another slot called a grille. Sloping down toward the court over these recesses and over the wall behind the receiver is a shedlike roof called a penthouse. The server serves the ball with a mighty cut, the deadliest trick being to make the ball backspin when it hits the penthouse roof and drop to the court "like a poached egg, limp, lifeless and with little bound." If this fails and a rally starts, the players...
When Manager Ross sold ailing veteran Goalie Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson to Detroit (TIME, Dec. 12) and put Rookie Brimsek in the nets, Boston fans raised the Garden roof. But Eddie Shore, who had been an early holdout, came to work, gave Rookie Crawford many a pointer, all season gave Rookie Brimsek the stoutest defense any goalie ever got. Upshot of that was that Brimsek was this season's No. 1 goalie. Art Ross's other prize performer was 22-year-old Roy Conacher, brother of famed Pucksters Charley and Lionel. Throughout the season Roy has pounded home...
Coatesvilie's pick-up station, which was set up on the airport, could just as well have been set up in a pasture, on a building roof or a hilltop, where towns without flying fields will have to set theirs. Between two 40-foot poles, 50 feet apart, stretched a rope with a mailbag attached to it. From the sky one of All-American's Stinsons, trailing a four-pronged hook from its belly on a cable, bore down and passed over the rope between the poles. Out of the Stinson tumbled a bag of Coatesville mail. Neatly...
Rarely, except at Presidential inaugurals, does the entire democratic hierarchy of the United States gather under one roof. But so they did last week, in the grey-&-gilt chamber of the House of Representatives, with remarkably few absentees-the President and his executive Cabinet, both bodies of the legislative branch, all eight members of the Supreme Court-to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first session of Congress...
...Italian governments would be willing to contribute. In the end, such integration of Latin cultures would broaden their appeal and inject into their study a measure of new life. If so, there would seem to be little justification for leaving Romance culture out in the rain, especially when a roof can so easily be provided...