Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each of the four departments of the Division of Biology (botany, physiology, zoology, and the Bussey Institution); will be contained in the new structure. Lecture and seminar room, in addition to the auditorium, will be conveniently situated on all floors. A large greenhouse is to be placed on the roof, with accomodations
Barbara Stanwyck is a 23-year-old Brooklyn girl who tried stenography and a telephone switchboard before she landed a chorus job on the Strand Roof. In a show called Keep Kool she did an imitation of the late Louis Wolheim in The Hairy Ape. She moved through the Follies and a few other musical shows before her first straight role in The Noose. In Burlesque she made theatrical history. Another of her current pictures, Illicit, is one of the year's best...
...Fifth Avenue front of the entire block is taken up by a graceful, perfectly oval 14-story building. It will contain ladies' shops, a banking floor, showrooms, a roof garden restaurant. Directly behind it the bleak, jagged slab of a 68-story tower shoots 675 ft. up into the air. Unadorned with radiator caps, Renaissance lanterns or mooring masts, it will be lower than either the Chrysler or Empire State buildings, will contain more useful space than either. Here will be the radio offices, 27 studios for broadcasting and television (which radio officials confidently expect to be commercially practicable...
Compensation. Lady Mary Heath, flying as a demonstrator for American Cirrus Engines, Inc., crashed with her plane through a factory roof during the National Air Races of 1929 in Cleveland. She sued her employers for $275,000, returned to England. Last week a referee in Jersey City, N. J. awarded Lady Heath $3,850 under the Workmen's Compensation Act, as out-of-court settlement...
Zion City consists mostly of old frame houses, although Dr. Voliva's hilltop, gabled mansion is a superior building with a gaudy roof. The streets are narrow, mostly unpaved and potholed. Visiting motorists know well they must not curse at bumps lest a Zion City officer arrest them. Huge signs prohibit smoking...