Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Staff men pumping ratchet levers jacked the trucks slowly apart until the air gap between the fulminating balls approached 40 ft. Blue, green, violet and lavender lightning lapped hungrily around the bases of the columns, licked the steel roof-beams overhead, searched the walls of the hangar, crashed from ball to ball. At last the designer cried...
...large herd of Holstein cows. Scornful of theoretical and impractical farm methods, he liked to take his classes out to working farms, to say "Here is the farm, here is the farmer, and here are the facts." One of his hard-headed sayings: "You paint a barn roof to preserve it. You paint a house to sell it. And you paint the sides of a barn to look at, if you can afford it." His own barns had one coat of red paint when they were built, none since...
...mystery it was, particularly when bloodstains and a bullet hole were found in the roof of the car, but Ottawa citizens took the matter as just one more incident in the lively annals of the Hardy family. Fulford Patrick Hardy's maternal grandfather was the Senator Fulford whose great fortune was derived from "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." His elder sister Mary married the heir to another successful nostrum, "Dr. Rogers' Fruitatives...
...except that their friends and relatives in the city might get hurt. Premier Bahol raked up ten pilots loyal to his Cabinet and sent them up from a temporary airport in Bangkok to spank the rebels. Soon seven planes had crashed among the friends and relatives, one on the roof of the Grand Palace, which houses Premier Bahol's Government. On the ground Premier Bahol carried out his threat that "this will not be an other bloodless revolution." Bahol's men rushed north into Donmuang, killing 500 rebels, wounding 1,000. When they captured the airdrome they found...
...finds him at the peak of his career, the shining star of the Paris Schools. When old Fulbert, canon of Notre Dame, invited Abelard to share his house and tutor his beautiful niece Heloise, Abelard was living the unconsciously uncomfortable life of a natural bachelor. Under Fulbert's roof he quickly caught fire from Heloise's adoration. One night the old man found them in bed together...