Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavy steel beams that will support the roof of the Donald C. Watson hockey rink began to rise over Soldiers Field on Monday. The roof is expected to be completed by the opening varsity practice Nov. 15, but the walls, dressing rooms, and stands will not be finished until a later date...
...been waiting for. After the equivalent of 9,000 hours of flight, the skin of the cabin near a window yielded to metal fatigue. This gave the essential clue. The scientists found a similar break in the fragments of Yoke Peter near the direction-finder window in the roof. Then they traced, fragment by fragment, what had happened with fearful swiftness to the doomed Comet...
...thirtieth of a second three of the forward seats, one of them with a passenger, moved upward toward the break in the roof. The next row of seats followed close behind. As the "suction wave" raced down the cabin, passengers and seats flew out into space. In two seconds, the scientists figured, the cabin of Yoke Peter must have been empty...
What they will see is an auto that is new from rubber to roof, with the large-car look of an Oldsmobile. Long before his predecessor at G.M., Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, made his crack about bird dogs and kennel dogs (TIME, Oct. 25), Curtice described the new Chevrolet as having "a hound-dog look"-long, low and forward-plunging. The same overall length (196 in.) as last year, the new Chevvies are lower by 2.6 in. to 6.3 in. (for the station wagon), have two inches more hip and shoulder room inside. With wrap-around windshields, they have...
Weiland was optimistic about the future of varsity hockey, saying that "we are attracting better and better players all the time." He also said that the Donald C. Watson rink will be "the best on the North American continent when the roof is completed. All we need is a good team to go with it," he added...