Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn Monday the gale was but a whisper, the sun burst through a sky of scudding rain clouds. But passengers on the starboard side, looking out of their windows, could not see the horizon. "It was like looking down a deep well." The deck tilted like a barn roof...
...railroad station, half of the other dove into the ditch after it had failed to gore four citizens and a ticket booth . . . The other member of the second goalpost was checked for Straus Hall by the unfailing courtesy that is the Taft Hotel. . . . Six men found a trolly car roof the thing that was being done in transportation from the Bowl to Chapel Street...
...fact the Union Press box is unique in its position in regard to the elements. Walled in on three sides and with a wide projecting roof, this enclosure never gets the benefit of the fresh October winds which find their way so easily into the analagous seats atop most Stadia. This inordinate confinement combines with the position directly over the smoking cigarettes of a capacity crowd to make the air hardly fit for use. Aside from the matter of hygiene, the decrease in visibility resultant from this pall makes discernment of the grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason...
...homes so swiftly. Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly. Many were crazed, stupefied by the fumes. Three, a grandfather, a father and a son. suddenly broke away, rushed into their house. Streams of lava trickled on all sides barring exit. Agonized onlookers saw them climb to the roof, stare stupidly at the Wall. The Wall broke. The three peasants, dead, were held fast and straight by the lava which coiled and recoiled about their knees. The lava slid up to their shoulders, and above their heads...
...surmounted by a great golden Phoenix with wings spread. Pavilion and chair rested on a great square pedestal, the whole being called the Takamikura. Enclosing the Takamikura with the spaciousness of an airplane hangar rose the mighty Shishinden or Temple of Enthronement. Beneath the eaves of its high thatched roof, the Shishinden was open along its entire Southern side, facing a vast court yard, with the Sun Gate to the left (East) and the Moon Gate to the right (West). Within the hangar, Shishinden, near but slightly to the left and behind the Takamikura, stood a similar "Throne," the Michodai...