Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eminent ecclesiastical architects, Cram & Goodhue of Boston. After the "baby" had been heard at midnight of the Thursday preceding the game in 1924 each midnight found students, residents & faculty assembled in the unlighted chapel. Toward the latter part of the week the chapel was crowded, students were on the roof, in the choir stalls, stationed in every possible part of the chapel inside & outside. The location of the ''baby" was never ascertained. The "baby" has not cried since 1924 and Sewanee has not defeated Vanderbilt in football since that fall...
...devoted to wireless research and transmitting, and on each end of the building will be a long room, one an oak paneled library, the other a place to be used as, a map room. Other maps will be housed in the special penthouse for charts. The rest of the roof will have a stone balustrade and will be open for observations. In the basement will be two floors for book-stacks for the housing of the 80,000 books, many of which have already been delivered. Elevator machinery and an elaborate ventilating system have also been placed in the basement...
...President's golden eggs are golden-voiced bells, the largest and finest set of Russian church bells ever brought to a foreign land. They were being hung last week at Harvard in the tower of new Lowell House, a tower with a roof of royal blue, richer than Yale blue, blue as Lowell blood...
While he was supposed to be mounting guard on the roof of the President's Palace one night last week, a Cuban soldier sauntered over to the ventilating pipe above President Gerardo Machado y Morales' bathroom...
...bomb is only one bomb. In a single night last week 13 bombs exploded in various quarters of the City of Havana. Nobody was killed. Most Cuban bombs are about as potent as cannon crackers-that of the faithless roof guard being an exception. Just to show how steady his nerves were, President Machado made public appearance on the Cuban Independence Day ("The Day of the Shout of Revolution'') last week, and inaugurated Cuba's brand new $18,000,000 Capitol Building...