Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building and ground, nothing for the presses he wanted to leave behind. Then the State Supreme Court upheld Mr. Chandler in his demand that he be paid for his equipment. Meantime, Mr. Chandler had started his new plant, a six-story miniature skyscraper topped by an Hispanic tile roof, with the printing plant separated from the main structure by a 6-in. crack. Next the City Council stepped in, offered to save a retrial by a new appraisal which set the figure at a high $1,875,000. That was the signal for Mr. Chandler to do the handsome thing...
...been proposed that all these collections be gathered under the same roof in a new building similar in scope to that of the Biological Laboratories. There are obvious objections, however, due to the physical operations involved. The Arnold Arboretum is entirely too complicated to move to Cambridge and the work of the Botanical Gardens in Cambridge which is used principally to supply specimens for classes can best be carried on near to the main part of the College...
Next morning in Butte, Mont, a policeman strolling his beat spied a man named William Mahan whom he had once arrested for bank robbery. As he approached, the man began to run. The policeman lost his quarry over a back fence and roof top. But in the Ford sedan which the man had deserted were found $15,155 worth of Weyerhaeuser ransom bills. All roads leading from Butte were promptly bottled...
Torrents poured in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Down went the flood waters of Cherry Creek to Denver. Down went swollen Fountain Creek at Colorado Springs, rolling eight feet deep in the residential section, drowning a man and woman on the roof of their sedan. The floods spread to Colorado's Sugar Bowl, rushed into Nebraska by way of the South Platte and Republican Rivers. The hamlets of Max and Parks vanished entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished...
...gift of $500,000. Together Widow Dunlap and Astronomer Chant looked over the ground near Toronto, found a suitable site on a ridge nine miles from the city. Her son laid a cornerstone. A graceful administration building went up, with three housings for small telescopes on the roof. Fifty yards away a great telescope was installed in a circular building topped by a gleaming copper-clad dome...