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Word: roofs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleading with the Texas State Board of Control to repair the roof of the Executive Mansion, Governor James V. Allred declared: "When it rains hard we sometimes need tubs. Often I have to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...procedure is to cut a W in the roof of the mouth. The outside bars of the W begin back of the molars, go forward along the gums to the bicuspids. From there the inner bars of the W go inward across the roof of the mouth until they meet at a point midway between the molars. This cutting makes three gores in the roof of the mouth. With a blunt knife Dr. Vaughan separates the two rear gores from the palatine bone. This allows him to slide the soft palate, to which they are attached, backward to the rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery for Speech | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Cagily the protectors of the peace surrounded the House, leaving not avenue of escape of their unsuspecting prey. The desperado, however, seemed little disturbed. He merely kept on his peaceful way, tugging now and then at the fence running along the edge of the roof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER HOUSE HAS BURGLAR SCARE AS MAN CLIMBS ROOF | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Police swarmed to Dunster House Friday morning when it was reported that either a student or a burglar was crawling about the roof of the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER HOUSE HAS BURGLAR SCARE AS MAN CLIMBS ROOF | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Sara Delano Roosevelt of the first generation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt & wife of the second generation, James Roosevelt & wife, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Roosevelt of the third generation, and Sara Delano Roosevelt of the fourth generation, all gathered last week under one roof for Christmas. Since Sistie and Buzzie Dall were absent because one had a cold, Sara, 3-year-old daughter of James, had the White House spotlight to herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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