Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House. In Washington. D.C., Charles Edward Beard was sentenced to a year in jail for stealing Government property after he drove up to a large city comfort station, climbed to the roof under cover of darkness, coolly hacked off 373 Ibs. of sheet copper, drove away...
There are two service lines forming a rectangle on the hazard side, and the server hits his serve off the penthouse and into this rectangle. The ball must be returned before the second bounce. The return may not hit the roof or rafters or above the play line and must go over...
...lines, a 108-in. wheelbase (v. about 115 in. for Ford and Chevvy), and a bigger engine (120 h.p. v. 90 h.p. last year) that will still get as much as 30 miles a gallon. Tok make the Rambler distinctive, as well as stronger, American added a wrap-around roof girdle over the rear window...
Chase Manhattan's new quarters, scheduled for possible 1958 completion, would consolidate under one roof 8,700 of the bank's personnel, now scattered over nine buildings, at "substantial savings in operating expenses." As its contribution to the area's rejuvenation, New York City plans to build near by a 5½-acre, 750-unit, middle-income housing project...
From the Golden Pagoda, the tourists drove on to visit the cave where, according to a dream Premier U Nu had two years ago, Buddha once dwelt. No cave existed there, so U Nu ordered one made. "The roof leaks," commented Comrade Khrushchev. "You should visit our Moscow subway. You will find it dry because we built it properly...