Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute of Biology, a plant which will bring under one roof all the departments of the Division of Biology, is now under construction. The plant will be built around three sides of a quadrangular court, this court cut off from Divinity Avenue by Divinity Hall in the Theological School...
Bounce. A certain Marcello Nitrati, Italian tourist, had just scaled St. Peter's dome and jumped off. After bouncing once against the side of the dome he plunged to the roof (308 ft. below), became the first suicide in the newly constituted Papal State (TIME...
...roof of the Pink House perched watchful machine gunners. To their officer the sound of shots in a side street, then a pell-mell rush of troops into the Square, could mean only one thing. Rat-rat-rat-rattled and spat the machine guns...
...Death stalked across Plaza de Mayo, the loyal revolutionary troops supposed that counter-revolutionaries had already captured the Casa Rosada! Scrambling wildly for cover, they sniped back at the machine gunners. But, with every man behind a corner, monument or bit of roof, heads cleared, the mistake was realized, firing ceased in front of the Pink House...
Unlikely to forget the Johnstown Flood of 1889 is Jacob Leonard Replogle, potent retired U. S. steelmaker. The direct result of the flood upon 13-year-old Master Replogle was that he was carried several miles downstream, clinging to the onetime roof of his onetime home. The indirect result was that, his family penniless, he entered the steel industry as an office boy for Cambria Steel. Rapidly he climbed, his invention of a thread-rolling machine giving him additional impetus. In 1916, a director and member of the executive committee, he was instrumental in selling Cambria's control...