Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many respects the Union, situated on Quincy Street just outside of the Yard, is the center of first-year life. Under one roof are the dining hall, common rooms, game rooms, rooms for informal language study, and two libraries, one containing a fine collection of books for general reading, the other texts required in History 1 and Government 1, two of the larger courses...
...days before, disembarked on the dock to the gay music of a Marine band. An hour later Manila's brightly lighted water front was suddenly plunged into pitch darkness. The dock on which the refugees were standing in confused groups began to shake. With a terrifying roar the roof above split apart. "They're bombing us again!" screamed a woman refugee. Another shrieked: "Is this another...
...hors d'oeuvres, ice cream and cakes, but made up for it with champagne. Even thicker than sample-passers from food companies at the convention last week were wine and liquor salesmen, whose stocks of courtesy cocktails ran out fast. Budweiser was served free on the hotel roof. A waiters' champagne race down Broad Street made staid Philadelphians stare...
...Shanghai's North Station troop trains were arriving every few minutes jammed to the roof with Chinese soldiers from Nanking...
...puffing. It swiftly swallowed 20 acres of Robertson's farmland. Other fissures snaked across his property, threatened 80 acres more. Salmon Falls Creek ran yellow with volcanic dust and yellow puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached there geologists expected to see the river disappear underground. They feared a sudden, widespread collapse which might engulf adjoining farms, cause a destructive local earthquake...