Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still standing, was built in 1765-67. Its uses since then have been many and varied. During the Revolution, for a short period when the students were transferred to Concord. Harvard Hall served as head-quarters for the American Army. Half a ton of lead was torn from the roof at the time to be moulded into bullets. George Washington was received there...
...Fine tuning had been eliminated by employing low frequency waves and a powerful, seven-tube superheterodyne receiver. Padded headphones protected the listener from internal and external din. The aerial, a hollow aluminum rod ten feet high, was equipped with a spring hinge to let it fold on the tank roof going under trees or bridges, rise erect again when they were passed...
Soon the superintendent of the Trinity Building discovered Joseph Fodor, workman, dressed in a blue suit, jumping lippety-lip along the parapets that border the roof. Informed that his daring high kicks, his cool pirouettes, his shocking splits excited the office workers, Joseph Fodor stopped and made this statement: "It was great sport dancing on the edge of things. There can be nothing like it unless it is flying. I should like to fly some time. But I shall dance no more, at least not here...
Electricians were busy last week on the roof of a hotel in Charlottes ville, Va. Three miles away, across a valley, stood Monticello, old home of Thomas Jefferson. The electricians were adjusting a search light to play on Monticello, a searchlight so huge that were Mon ticello a mile nearer, the dazzling light would artificially "sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia...
Last week President Frank said there would be some 120 students (men), housed with their faculty under one roof. They plan to study civilizations for two years, then to undertake the usual general or professional college courses leading to degrees. "The gist of the course of study in the Experimental College," he said, "is that it will represent a study of situations rather than a study of subjects. . . . The aim is to keep informal the process of learning...