Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work has already been started on two wireless towers which will be mounted at either end of the roof of the new Geography Building on Divinity Avenue...
...tower bases, which are at present being completed, have been constructed by fastening there steel I-beams together in the shape of a triangle, and bolting them to the bottom of the cement balustrade in the two east corners of the roof, at the north and south ends of the building...
...name of his first cafe he owes in good part to Jean Wiener, the friend who played the piano. Poet Jean Cocteau drifted into the bare little shop one day, heard Wiener play Bach, told others. Cocteau named the place Le Boeuf sur le Toil (The Bull on the Roof). Wiener soon afterward acquired a partner, one Clement Doucet who drifted into Le Boeuf to display an elaborate invention, part organ, part piano. The invention ir.ade slight impression on Wiener but Doucet's lazy, easy way of playing fascinated him. The pair went in for two-piano music, particularly...
...Brooklyn home James Dennis Wyber, 14. played soldier, used the roof as a fort, used his room as an arsenal for the storage of a rifle, an airgun, ammunition, a trench helmet, bayonets. One day James Dennis Wyber missed some things, suspected an enemy foraging party. To his roof-fort he climbed, waited until Alexander Annunciato, 9, began to climb to the enemy fortress-a garage roof. Soldier Annunciato got three companions, prepared to take the Wyber fort. Soldier Wyber fired a warning shot, hit Soldier Annunciato in the back, wounded him severely...
Another demonstration of infra-red use occurred last week on the roof of England's Croydon Airdrome control tower. There Paul Humphrey MacNeil of Huntington, L. I. showed his infra-red sextant. Navigators locate their position at sea or in the air by determining how high the sun is above the horizon. They "shoot the sun" through the eyepiece of a sextant. If the day is cloudy, they cannot see the sun, although they may know its approximate location. The MacNeil sextant is connected with an amplifier sensitive to the sun's infra-red rays. Those rays...