Word: skylight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rain was beating down on the skylight. The smell of grass drifted up and down the stairway. The light on the landing was burning, but the man said it had taken eight weeks get it replaced. Action on a complaint of roaches had taken less time--a month and a half. "I think it helped. We haven't had so many lately...
Then he climbed through a skylight to the roof of the small stone building and began firing methodically at pedestrians near a children's play area. An 80-year-old man was wounded twice in the back; nannies shielded children with their bodies. About 100 police swarmed around the toilets and exchanged gunfire with Angelof for an hour. Two cops were wounded superficially before a patrolman climbed a tree behind Angelof and brought him down with two shots from his service revolver. Two other officers leaped onto the roof and poured ten more rounds into...
...long impotent, the Deputies finally had a platform, and some used it well. One was Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Gaullist Finance Minister and leader of the 43-member Independent Republicans, who are allied with the Gaullists. As he rose to speak, he glanced at the ornate skylight through which flooded the late-afternoon rays of the spring sun. "Never has the light that falls from that skylight seemed to me to illuminate such an unreal world," he said...
...reasoned that the ark was probably built of either bamboo or lightweight wood, both common to southern Iraq. To reconstruct the design, he relied entirely on God's cryptic commands to Noah (Genesis 6: 14-16) that the ark should have a door in its side, a skylight and three decks. The Scriptures mention three dimensions: the vessel was to be 300 cubits (492 ft.) long, 50 cubits (82 ft.) wide, and 30 cubits (49 ft.) high. That would make it somewhat larger than a World War II Liberty ship. After exhaustive reckoning, Ben-Uri concluded that to meet...
...vessel could have been built while lying at an angle on one side. Animals could easily climb a gentle incline on a side and enter through a door. As the ark began to float, it would right itself; as a result, the door would tilt and become a skylight in the roof, and water could not enter the craft from its sides. The design, according to Ben-Uri, could easily accommodate three decks and provide a capacity of some 5,500 tons, enough for at least 1,000 pairs of animals...