Word: roofless
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...bedrock eight feet below the surface on the highest hill of the orange grove. To this block is bolted the large telescope - a 16-in. reflector in a 12-ft. galvanized iron tube. On the lower side are ascension and declination meters and counterbalance weights. The observatory is roofless. A square wooden platform provides working space. The lenses were ground in a small Escondido garage-workshop...
...last week, industrial production was at 20% of the 1938 level, as compared to 5 to 10% in the U.S. zone. Brown coal output was at 50% of 1937. The first new-model automobiles were in production, as were stockings, underwear, gloves, tiles for Germany's millions of roofless houses. Even pots & pans were being made-from helmets...
...devastated areas of northeastern France and northwestern Germany unrolled before him. Over the wastes of Berlin, over the roofless houses and the crumbling church towers, Pilot Myers banked and circled and finally settled down at the airport, where honor guards had been waiting since early morning...
...starlit Philippine sky covered the roofless ruins of old Santa Cruz church. Viennese-born Conductor Herbert Zipper stepped onto the plank podium-and the Manila Symphony Society's first concert since December 1941 had begun...
...switchover will swell each week. War contracts must be completed first, but plants may reconvert before the end of the war with Germany. For roofless Britons, patiently trudging to work in their shiny trousers and shabby dresses, home-front production will give priorities to clothing, building material, household equipment. Cars, tires, refrigerators, electrical gear, machinery will get preference for the vital export markets...