Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until John Lewis burst onto the scene, the Miami council meeting had followed the familiar, doldrum-ridden pattern. The members-whose ages average 63-met only until noon, then sunned themselves (fully clothed) on the roof garden or the second-floor veranda, where they watched Biscayne Boulevard's traffic, talked about old times, and cursed C.I.O...
...Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, whose somber fantasies went almost unnoticed until after he died in 1917, once remarked that "The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...long last, the University's language clubs will be united under one roof when they take over the Cannon House as a center this term. During the war, the large white home, located behind the Germanic Museum, was used by the School of Overseas Administration...
Newspapers called it the worst fog in 20 years. Officially, it was no record. The women clerks in the Air Ministry who test fogs by searching from the roof for 14 well-known landmarks (like Nelson's Column), reported that they could just discern "Object X," a building 30 yards away. Weather bugs, who call fogs by colors, dubbed this a "yellow"-worse than a "white" but not as bad as a "black...
...three-ton question allowed no time for designing or building machinery. Dr. Harden used his laboratory as a factory and tried every short cut he could think of. First step was pouring a solution of uranium salt and other chemicals into a battery of wooden washtubs on the roof. There the photochemical action of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight (on cloudy days, sun lamps) converted the transparent liquid into green, powdery potassium uranium fluoride. The second step: melting this secondary uranium salt in graphite cups for electrolytic separation of the pure metal. The electrodes were raised and lowered by automobile...