Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several thousand soggy people who had for hours been progressively impregnated with cold rain stamped their feet in impatience. On the open pine-board stands continuously flushed by the downpour some Congressmen and distinguished guests took an icy showerbath in full regalia. In the inaugural pavilion covered by a roof beneath which the gusty torrent swept, attendants dumped the puddles from chairs as the Cabinet and seven Justices of the Supreme Court (including all its aged conservative members) marched down the official red carpet, which oozed water like a sponge, to take their seats. Mrs. Roosevelt rushed about oblivious...
Cambridge itself holds a notable collection of things worth seeing. The most attractive building is the Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720. Various alterations and improvements and the destruction of the roof by fire in 1924, have done much to take away the original charm of a building in a modified Jacobean style (something like a simplified version of St. Catharine's), but something is left worth looking at. Otherwise the Harvard buildings are almost uniformly inconspicuous and undistinguished, with a few lapses into pomposity, mostly neo-neo-classic, and one real screamer which at first escapes my attention and which...
...about as safe as human ingenuity can make it. The gold storage vault is a massive box 40 ft. by 60 ft., with top and sides of 25-in. steel and concrete. It rests on bedrock and is enclosed by a granite and concrete building topped with a bombproof roof. An invading army that lands on the Atlantic coast will have 600 rough miles to travel before it reaches Fort Knox. Common thieves will have to outwit and outfight a detachment of 24 Mint guards in "pill boxes" at the building's four corners and the entire Seventh Cavalry...
Since there is no possible support for a would-be trapeze artist except a thin pipe suspended eight inches from the roof, men on the fifth floor were stumped for an explanation. One observer was inclined to ascribe the phenomenon to an advanced knowledge of the principles of levitation...
Eccentric to a mild degree when he got older, Brisbane displayed no fear of Death, took sensible health precautions. On his New Jersey estate he built a brick tower which he called "a machine for living." Each of its five floors had one large room. On the roof was a sleeping arrangement, for Brisbane argued that if outdoor sleeping was helpful to consumptives, it must also be good for people in normal health. When the morning sun waked him, he merely adjusted a lightproof mask of black silk, slept peacefully...