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Tennis writers on Twitter were certainly not distracted: Ultimately, US Open’s big mistake was building Ashe without roof in 1997 when Aus Open already had roofed stadium.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012

Tennis writers on Twitter were certainly not distracted: Ultimately, US Open's big mistake was building Ashe without roof in 1997 when Aus Open already had roofed stadium.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012

He had roofed over 70 prices with formal ceilings, had set up 70 more tentative ceilings by voluntary agreements with the industries concerned.

From Time Magazine Archive

For here, notwithstanding the lack of necessity, its builders seemed to have adhered to the Over-world tradition, and had roofed their fane.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider

And Hector Bartlett, little more than a mummy in the Museum, had gone one fine day into Asia and dug up the gold plates that had roofed a temple of the Sun.

From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson