Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Souls' College allows itself one big celebration every hundred years. The night All Souls' was consecrated, Chichele, it is said, went up on the roof of the college to give thanks to God for the completion of his work. And there he came upon a mallard duck, which was resting there. He gave thanks for the lucky omen, for the mallard was the badge of his family, and told the newly appointed Fellows that once every hundred years, they should all go up on the roof of the college and look for a mallard, and if they found one they...
...names of seven former professors in the Harvard Law School, who were eminent as well in the shaping of American legal tradition, have recently been carved on the marble slab which extends below the roof of the new Langdell Hall addition. The names on the West side are Story, Greenleaf, Parsons, and on the East side, Gray, Ames, Thayer, Smith. They were chosen by Dean Roscoe Pound for their contributions to legal education...
...gift of Edward S. Harkness of New York City, to take the form of a group of self-contained buildings, each with its own sleeping, living and dining facilities. In this way some two hundred and fifty men will be brought under the same roof. It is the University's hope to bring into contact a body of students with diverse interests who will provoke one another to think on many and varied subjects. Stimulation of undergraduates by rivalry both in athletics and scholarship should be an ultimate result of the system, the University believes. In a word, the offerings...
Identifying poisonous snakes is easy. Most of them belong to the pit-viper family. They have a deep depression between eye and nostril. Heads are flat and triangular, necks thin, bodies stout, tails short, eyes with elliptical pupils like a cat's. Fangs fold back against the roof of the mouth. A single row of scales runs along the belly. The biggest U. S. snake is the eastern diamond-back rattler, which grows to nine feet...
...Amanullah and Inayatullah, the usurper seemed to have aggravated his deed by adding every insult and presumption to injury. Radio flashes from Kabul first told that the Third-King-of- the-Week had restored order, then envisioned the British Minister to Afghanistan, Sir Francis Humphrys, as standing on the roof of his legation, peering about through powerful field glasses, espying only cowed citizens and their ferociously armed conquerors. Some of the bandits were described as "swathed in cartridge belts up to the eyes," and "jingling with as many as three rifles, six pistols, and two swords." The new Water Carrier...