Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almost roof-high and room-long in the Mines, Metals and Machinery Building stretches Treasure Mountain, showing open-pit mine operations aboveground, gold and copper mining along 500 feet of underground passageways. Good also: U. S. Steel's diorama of a steel-built San Francisco of 1999; a 555-lb. piano hanging from a thin steel thread...
Other patients, when shown a square and a triangle and asked to draw them, reply that they do not know what these abstract symbols are. But instead of a separate square and triangle they draw with facility a crude house, with a square body and a triangular roof...
...King and Queen of England, shot down the track. Burrell Wilhelm's cab swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open the front of one sleeping car and stove in the roof of another. A conductor on the express was killed. At least 39 passengers were hurt. Burrell Wilhelm was unscathed...
While the Memorial Day Exercises were taking place along the river-bank yesterday, a Harvard Junior was severely injured in a fracas with fifteen local rowdies who were stoning sun-bathers on the roof of Winthrop House...
Passing by in his car while the gang was tossing stones at the persons on the roof, the student stopped and opened fire on the rowdies with his air rifle. He was immediately mobbed and when the blood and crowds had cleared he was taken off to Stillman...