Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a bankrupt flying organization, among whose creditors was the Advocate, was liquidated a short time ago, the Old Women of Plympton Street drew this contraption out of the bag, and for want of better, firmly intends to harbor it on her roof...
...planning for scarcity by the restriction of production. . . ." That night the President of the U. S., who is a master at conciliating even his most critical callers, and the Prime Minister of Canada, noted in his own country as a great "harmonizer," went to bed under the same roof, each thinking the other was a fine fellow...
...were as popular as gasoline cars. Every afternoon contests were held for the easiest car to start, easiest to stop, easiest to steer. Winner of the steering contest had to navigate safely through a maze of boxes and barrels strewn on a plank track at 8 m.p.h. On the roof of the Garden was a ramp for hill-climbing demonstrations...
...hard. Rain leaked through the roof of the little dark house where we lived and it was damp. We had poor food, but he was always a loving and considerate son-a model...
...colored chalks before enormous sheets of thin paper on which he scribbled skyscrapers on stilts, trees, frogs, elevated roadways, blue clouds, orange suns. The secret of Radiant City seemed to be to limit motor traffic to elevated roadways, put all buildings on stilts with playgrounds and footpaths underneath, roof gardens above...