Word: skylights
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...Brooklyn, Patrolman Thomas Erwin strolled down Fifth Avenue at midnight, saw two men shin up an elevated pillar, climb to the roof of a delicatessen store. Following, Sleuth Erwin found the two removing panes of glass from the roof's skylight, arrested one, missed the other. In court, Climber Luciani Perlizzi, 21, explained that he had a girl, that she was bringing a "blind date" (unknown girl) for his companion, that his companion insisted on seeing her first...
...vault is placed on property adjacent to the new Harvard Astronomical Observatory. It has no superstructure, the only visible part being a skylight over a small workshop next to the vault, in which instruments not susceptible to shocks will be placed. The cell in which the seismographs will be installed will never be entered except to change the recording materials and adjust the machinery. Six seismographs will be used, two to record vertical movements of the earth, and four to record horizontal movements. Two of the later are already made, and are in use in the present seismographic station...
...auspices. Decorated in soft colors and seating about three hundred people, it is equipped with the most modern projectors for lantern slides, silent and sound films. At the side of the platform there are several brass plates of switches and buttons. These control the electrically driven shutters in the skylight overhead, the concealing lights, the velvet curtains and the multiple drops. These drops comprise three blackboards which disappear into the files, allowing sketches to be retained and obviating the delays of erasing, also a new type movie screen, and a platform containing the sound apparatus. This gives free usage...
...first explosion was followed by a second, greater one. Glass was blown from the windows. The force of the explosion blew out a skylight and the descending fragments fell through a shaft upon the people seated in the waiting room three floors below. Plaster showered from walls and ceilings. A heavy yellow gas poured through the building. Doctors, nurses and patients sniffed it and fled. Some seated in chairs took a long breath and died without moving. Some reached the windows, prepared to jump, but billows of gas enveloped them and they fell back dead. Others succeeded in leaping from...
Fire ladders were extended to the roof. The firemen looked down through the broken skylight on a stairway filled with a mass of struggling bodies, arms and legs twisted and intertangled. Screams and shrieks of agony arose. The rescuers broke their way in from the roof. More than 16 bodies blocked the stairway. Only one, that of a doctor, seemed alive. He was removed first but died in a hospital...