Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photographer escaped by climbing over a roof. Another crawled through a window, hid in the kitchen of a startled housewife...
...entrance hall will have lofty stained glass windows, a massive vaulted roof supported by stone piers, and a testalated pavement. On each side of the entrance will be two undergraduate reading rooms: the Reserved book room containing nearly 40,000 volumes for general use and the Linonia and Brothers' Room with over 30,000 books of general character. The last named room will be, in purpose and use, almost exactly like the Farnsworth Room of Widener Library. This room is planned to be the most beautiful in the building...
...made him famed wherever legs are discussed. But it was not expected that these pistons would perform any prodigies in the American Legion track meet in Boston last week. Mr. Hubbard needs to be out of doors to run well. He does not feel free or limber under a roof. His great black legs also prefer spikes and a cinder track to rubber sneakers and a smooth armory floor. Yet Mr. Hubbard, who holds the world's broad-jump record, won the 50-yard dash, finished second in the low hurdles, and rounded off his day by sprinting 65 yards...
...Major U. S. Grant 3rd,* Army officer in charge of public buildings in the Capital, reported to the House Appropriations Committee that the roof of the White House has settled since 1912, when it was repaired, that the trusses supporting it have slipped and that much of its weight now rests on interior partitions. He said the roof should be repaired and the attic rebuilt, but it would cost $500,000 and the President did not approve of the expenditure at present...
Next morning at 7:00, whistles shrieked in the collieries of Pennsylvania. Grinning miners, with carbide lamp on cap, went down into the dark. Carefully they tapped on the roofs to make sure no rock had loosened since their last visit 170 days before. Busily they loaded fallen rock and repropped the roof where it was necessary...