Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York and the London Times were driven to the secret headquarters of General Matsui. They found muddy water an inch deep in the hall of the Commander-in-Chief's commandeered headquarters, paper pasted over the broken panes of his windows, water leaking through the roof and pattering loudly into tin pans. It was impossible to talk in comfort until deft Japanese orderlies had placed towels in the bottoms of the tin pans to deaden the noise. Then long-eared General Matsui fell to reminiscing about what a help he was to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in general...
...Shanghai bombing pictures (TIME, Sept. 13), but were in some respects superior to them in their hair-raising immediacy. The Movietone, Universal and Paramount photographers who made them arrived at Nanking day before the promised raid, decided to stop at the Yangtze Hotel outside, the city wall because its roof commanded a good view of the railroad station, which they expected to be the prime object of the attack. Imagine their discomfiture next day when the Japanese planes droned out of the sky and headed not for the railroad station but for the power station, 300 yd. away from...
Adjourning to the roof of the Central High School near the hospital, Photographer Menken again had a bombing raid drop very nearly in his lap. "This time they headed smack for the hospital. Suddenly the leader went into a power dive and pointed directly where I was standing. Two bombs dropped from the plane and I could hear them coming for the building with that terrible whishing sound that says, 'This is Arthur's, this is Arthur's!' I ducked behind a door just in time. My car, which was next to the gate, was punctured...
...with high-explosive municipal warfare than it has had since, vast was its indignation that in a single day in the first battle of the Marne, 287 German shells smashed into the 800-year-old Cathedral of Reims. By 1919 the Cathedral was a shambles, its 400-ton lead roof melted, nearly all of its great stained-glass windows blown out, 24 of its 35 ancient statues wrecked, all its flying buttresses demolished or badly damaged. Altogether the damage amounted to 140,000,000 francs (then $27,000,000). Among benefactors who contributed millions of francs to the restoration...
Even the horses are restricted; they can take a little exercise early in the morning, but must go back to bed at 10 a.m. Meanwhile vituperative challenges pass to and for between Mr. O'Hara in his pent-house on the roof of the grandstand and Governor Quinn under the marble done on one of Providence's Seven Hills...