Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paula Echols, 15, was in an English class with 20 other students when she saw the building shake and the roof fall in. Then Paula saw her teacher's leg protruding from a rumbling pile of brick and mortar. Pinned beneath her desk, Paula heard the boy across the aisle screaming for help. Another boy dragged her out through the window-frame...
...roof just lifted up. Then the walls fell out and the roof fell in," said William C. Shaw, the superintendent. "It sounded like dynamite," said a boy named Barber on the football team. ''It blew up like a tin can with a firecracker inside it," said an oil field worker. Across the plains for miles around, horrified observers on shanty porches, at oil derricks, in automobiles, thought of a hurricane, an earthquake, a battle, as at 3:05 last Thursday afternoon the high-school wing of the Consolidated School at New London, Tex., suddenly blew to pieces...
...January of 1604 there gathered under the roof of the magnificent royal residence of Hampton Court a convocation of clerymen to discuss "things pretended to be amiss in the church." James I, just down from Scotland, had not yet proclaimed to the English people his anti-Presbyterian notions, and the Conference was called to work out a compromise between High and Low Church parties...
...firemen, gleefully tearing down walls and ceiling, were packed into the tiny room from which the smoke poured. Meanwhile, co-operative Crimson stalwarts helped pull hoses up to the roof of the building. Their ardor was some-what dampened when boisterous fire-fighters above, testing a hose, directed the stream of water at the undergraduates...
When Allen Tate, critic and poet, had written most of a long-planned life of Robert E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman's four-volume, definitive R. E. Lee (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) appeared, blew his house down before the roof was on. Last week the same meteorological hard luck seemed to be pursuing Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). For her Civil War novel came out in the wake of that typhoon of bestsellers, Gone With the Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum...