Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Class A building has adequate ventilation and toilet facilities for the number of people specified, has strong enough over-head construction to carry any debris from collapsed walls or roof, except in the case of a direct hit with a large bomb. Most of the buildings thus classified are of fireproof construction, and afford safety from splintering glass and fragmentation of the bomb...
...Class B structures fulfill the same conditions as the Class A, except that their overhead construction is not strong enough in most cases, and they are not fireproof. However, reinforcement of the roof can be easily made, reducing the danger appreciably. Both types are provided with two exits...
Results of the air-raid test from the roof of Widener Wednesday noon were "highly satisfactory in and beyond the area that we were trying to cover," said officials of the Eastern Company who conducted the trial...
...farmhouses and in smaller cities where families still live close together, they would all gather under one roof, and grandfather would say grace before the dinner began. Too soon after dinner, there would be snacks of rich brown fruit cake, baked weeks before and set aside to ripen. In the South children would shoot off firecrackers and their elders would drink eggnog...
...Academy student body, known as "the Regiment," is all housed under one roof, huge Bancroft Hall, recently enlarged by two new wings to take care of the present record enrollment of 3,009. A midshipman is roused from bed at 6:20, thereafter kept busy with classes, drills, athletics and a required study period (8 to 9:50 p.m.) until he turns in at 10:05 (except Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, which are free). About 55% of his studies are engineering and mathematics, 25% professional (seamanship, navigation, gunnery, naval history), 20% cultural (English, history and government, U.S. foreign policy, foreign...