Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestions might be offered to improve the lighting conditions although the architectural mistake of placing the room in a northerly location and in back of an overhanging roof can never be completely overcome...
Widener is by situation lord of the Yard and in theory the focal point of Harvard. It boasts many superlatives. It is the largest department of the University and one of the most expensive. Under its roof is gathered the most complete aggregation of pre-Mussolini Italian books, the best Milton, and the biggest film collection. Over 100 persons are involved in a system which can deliver any of several million books in time comparable to that of the Congressional Library or New York's Public Library. Alumni and visitors are awed by its murals, marble, and majesty...
...After my examination of the wreckage I have no hesitation in saying this was the most stupid and most brutal act of modern warfare. Great Red Cross characters were painted across the roof giving the name of the hospital. One hundred and fifty patients were killed, 200 medical staff servants and others, to a total of over 500 casualties...
...canyon wall, twelve miles from the Grand Canyon railroad station. The butte is said by geologists to have been carved out by erosion between 12,000 and 35,000 years ago. First reports made it appear that the plateau on top was something like a penthouse garden on the roof of a skyscraper, but such is not the case. Though arduous, the ascent to the top is far from impossible and the worst of the climb is confined to a steep sandstone slope near the top. Yet before the expedition reached its goal, Shiva Temple was touted as a "biological...
...time to prowl around Shanghai's famed new Municipal Centre on which Chinese have spent $8,000,000 (or 20,000,000 Chinese dollars), correspondents last week found the $225,000 Administration Building gutted as a result of 13 shells efficiently hurled through its green and yellow tiled roof by Japanese warships. Mere smoking debris was the Centre's $90,000 museum and burned was the $1,500,000 Jukong Municipal Wharf completed only a few months...