Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immigrated from Germany with his family when he was 12, worked for Detroit Architect George D. Mason for 14 years, opened his own office when he was 26. He and the automotive industry's mass production grew together and Kahn's factory designs-"all-under-one-roof," later "all-on-one-floor"-became part & parcel of developing U.S. production; industry's demands for his services made Kahn a mass-producer himself. Ultimately he designed some 1,000 buildings for Henry Ford (including the vast Willow Run bomber plant), 127 major plants for General Motors, in four decades...
...female bats congregate in hollow trees, barns or vacant houses. (Male bats are excluded.) Here each gives birth to her live young, only one per year, with occasional twins! The baby clings to its mother as long as it is suckling, but the mother leaves it hanging from the roof or wall while she goes on brief foraging expeditions...
...Hall is now a relic neither loved nor hated by the students. Its fantastic Gothic architecture, combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic nightmare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure. Awaiting...
...appreciated when I tell you that not only is the operating theater in darkness, with the sterilizing apparatus out of use, but the labor ward is left without any light." Lucknow's Differin Hospital reported two nurses and one patient bitten by monkeys. A workman on the roof of a Lucknow locomotive workshop nearly fell off while wrestling with a monkey...
Next day the New Opera's 100-odd youthful singers turned to polishing up their coming offerings: Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne, Verdi's Macbeth, Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame. They raised Steinway Hall's roof with incessant rehearsals. They were out to prove, once & for all, that opera does not have to be sung by middle-aged tenors and bulging contraltos. Between arias, they hotly argued this revolutionary' idea over hamburgers and milk in the 57th Street Automat. To the participants the New Opera is more than opera: it is a crusade. They came...