Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College buildings in case of a bombing." Turning towards a cigar-smoking clerk, he added: "That is, if we can depend on 'em. They think everything's a big joke. Why, we had to send a ladder truck down last spring to get a Lampoon man off the roof of his own building." But feeling in the delta of Cambridge Street and Broadway is friendly to the Harvards. "They don't give us much trouble," one burly engine-driver confided with a wink, "but if they don't each buy a ticket to our next ball...
...course will teach the prospective wardens elementary gas-preventive measures, how to demolish buildings, and what action to take if incendiary bombs should break through the roof. It will demonstrate how wardens must be organized into units so as to keep the report center informed as to extent of damage and need for outside aid; such damage for example, as debris cluttering the streets broken gas mains and unexploded time bombs...
...departure of the full-bellied Wellingtons is a high point of suspense. The Wing Commander stands in a trailer hauled onto the flying field. From its roof projects a small glass dome. The Wing, equipped with headphones and mouthpiece, peers through the glass, dispatching his squadron: "Hello, C for Charlie [name of the plane ]. You may taxi up and take off." C for Charlie trundles with a roar into the night. Then: "Hello, control. C for Charlie airborne 19:35 [7:35 p.m.]." On the raid, camera and sound track accompany a plane called F for Freddie and its crew...
Finally, way up under the roof, the old diving cage has been turned into the Club offices, where future presidents and stage managers will start the ball rolling for the productions in Sanders Theatre...
...leave the State. For a second $500 he arranged to have a trader's hired hand take her home with him. The hired hand was husky, hard-drinking Tom Lincoln. When the trader's wife objected to having an unmarried expectant mother under her roof, the trader gave Tom $15, a mare and a mule, to take Nancy away and marry her. After a brawl over the fee, the marriage was performed on June 12, 1806. Judge Alley is not positive of Abe's birthplace or the date. He strongly suspects the child saw the marriage ceremony...